{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-magistrates-courts-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/674",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Magistrates' Courts) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-magistrates-courts-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where by virtue of an order under section 17 of the Local Government Act 1992 one or more commission areas are created, abolished or altered, regulation 3 shall have effect in relation to that change with the following modifications:\n(a) for every reference to 1st April 1996 there shall be substituted the date on which the order comes into force;\n(b) for the reference to section 1 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 there shall be substituted a reference to the order;\n(c) at the end of paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the words “until such time as commissions of the peace for the new commission areas are granted”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/674/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:56.010058+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."
}