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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-size-and-chairmanship-of-bench-amendment-rules-1999/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2396",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices of the Peace (Size and Chairmanship of Bench) (Amendment) Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-size-and-chairmanship-of-bench-amendment-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules–\n(a) “the 1995 Rules” mean the Justices of the Peace (Size and Chairmanship of Bench) Rules 1995;\n(b) “the 1997 Act” means the Justices of the Peace Act 1997;\n(c) “supplemental list” means the supplemental list referred to in section 7 of the 1997 Act; and\n(d) expressions also used in the 1995 Rules have the same meaning as in those Rules (as amended by rule 3 of these Rules).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/971."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 7(3) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 is amended by Part V(1) of Schedule 15 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) which comes into force on 27th September 1999."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2396/article/2",
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  "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."
}