{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/litigants-in-person-costs-and-expenses-magistrates-courts-order-2001/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/litigants-in-person-costs-and-expenses-magistrates-courts-order-2001/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3438",
  "legislation_title": "The Litigants in Person (Costs and Expenses) (Magistrates' Courts) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/litigants-in-person-costs-and-expenses-magistrates-courts-order-2001",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Rules of court",
  "text": "In section 1 “rules of court”, in relation to magistrates' courts in England and Wales, shall mean rules made under section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43, as amended by paragraph 25 of Schedule 18 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41) and paragraphs 26 and 29 of Schedule 11 and paragraph 95 and 116 of Schedule 13 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/879",
      "affecting_title": "The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) (No.2) Order 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/1045",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Procedure (Modification of Enactments) Order 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3438/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:27:06.430912+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."
}