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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2269",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) (Amendment) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-2001",
  "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:\n(a) remove the requirement that to be employed as a clerk in court after 31st December 2008, a court clerk employed on 31st December 1998, who had not attained the age of 40 at that date, must qualify as a barrister or solicitor or pass all the examinations for one of those professions; and\n(b) provide that 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 barrister, or by having passed all the examinations for one of those professions) may accept further contracts of employment as a clerk in court, regardless of any interval between successive contracts.\nThe Rules also make minor drafting amendments.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2269/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:45:30.913834+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."
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