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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-act-1988/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-act-1988/schedule-3/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/34",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Aid Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
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  "text": "In this Part “collecting court ”, in relation to a contribution order, means a magistrates’ court specified in the order; and the court so specified shall be—\n(a) in a case where the court making the order is itself a magistrates’ court, that court;\n(b) in a case where the order is made on an appeal from a magistrates’ court, or in respect of a person who was committed (whether for trial or otherwise by a magistrates’ court) to the Crown Court, the court from which the appeal is brought or, as the case may be, which committed him; and\n(c) in any other case, a magistrates’ court nominated by the court making the order.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/34/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:54.072822+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."
}