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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1979-repealed-1961997/section-62A",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/55",
  "legislation_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (repealed 19.6.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1979-repealed-1961997",
  "path": "section/62A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "62A",
  "heading": "Regulations as to accounts and audit.",
  "text": "(1) The Lord Chancellor may by regulations made by statutory instrument require magistrates’ courts committees—\n(a) to keep prescribed accounts and prescribed records in relation to those accounts, and\n(b) to cause any such accounts to be audited in accordance with the regulations.\n(2) In subsection (1) above “prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 62A inserted (1.11.1994) by 1994 c. 29, s.85; S.I. 1994/2594, art.3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/55/section/62A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:01.284091+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."
}