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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-1999/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-1999/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2814",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) (Amendment) Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) Rules 1979 so as to provide that:\n(a) an assistant who held a training certificate on 1st January 1999 may continue to act as a clerk in court for the duration of the course to which the certificate relates;\n(b) an assistant whose employment is registered with the Law Society as a training contract may act as a clerk in court;\n(c) a person employed as a clerk in court before 1st January 1999 who is not qualified under rule 4(1)(a) (that is to say, as a solicitor or a barrister, or by having passed all the examinations for one of those professions) may accept further contracts of employment as a clerk in court after that date, provided that the interval between two successive contracts does not exceed three months.\nThis last provision does not enable a person to act as a clerk in court after 31st December 2008 who could not otherwise have done so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2814/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:43:47.524230+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}