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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-amendment-of-various-rules-rules-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1096",
  "legislation_title": "The Licensing (Amendment of Various Rules) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-amendment-of-various-rules-rules-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Licensing Rules 1961, the Licensing (Extended Hours Orders) Rules 1962, and the Licensing (Special Hours Certificates) Rules 1982, to transfer the administrative functions of justices' clerks under those Rules to justices' chief executives in line with section 90 of, and Schedule 13 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (which implement corresponding transfers in primary legislation).\nSubsection (5) of section 90 provides that for the purposes of that section the administrative functions of justices' clerks are all of their functions apart from those which are legal functions within the meaning given by section 48(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25), as substituted by section 89(1) of the 1999 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1096/note",
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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."
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