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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-43",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/25",
  "legislation_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed",
  "path": "section/43",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Qualifications for appointment as justices’ clerk.",
  "text": "No person shall be appointed as justices’ clerk unless either—\n(a) at the time of appointment—\n(i) he has a 5 year magistrates’ courts qualification (within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990); or\n(ii) he is a barrister or solicitor and has served for not less than five years as assistant to a justices’ clerk; or\n(b) he then is or has previously been a justices’ clerk.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1990 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/25/section/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:26:14.706489+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."
}