{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-rules-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-rules-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2784",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices' Clerks Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-rules-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 5th October 1999\nLaid before Parliament 11th October 1999\nComing into force 1st November 1999\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 144, justices of the peace and justices' clerks, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 144 is extended by sections 145 and 146 of that Act, by section 45 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) and by section 49 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2784/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:46:00.949237+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."
}