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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-magistrates-courts-regulations-1996/schedule/paragraph-5",
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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": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Modification of references",
  "text": "(1) In the enactments to which this paragraph applies—\n(a) any reference to a justice of the peace for, of or within a county shall be construed in relation to any area in England outside Greater London as a reference to a justice of the peace for a commission area (as defined in section 1 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979);\n(b) any reference to county justices shall be construed in relation to any area in England outside Greater London as a reference to justices of the peace for a commission area (as so defined); and\n(c) any reference to a county, without more, shall be construed in relation to any area in England outside Greater London as a reference to a commission area (as so defined).\n(2) The enactments to which this paragraph applies are the following—\n(a) section 10 of the Parochial Libraries Act 1708;\n(b) section 4 of the Distress for Rent Act 1737;\n(c) section 4 of the Inclosure Act 1773;\n(d) section 2 of the Burial Ground Act 1816;\n(e) section 2 of the Distress (Costs) Act 1817;\n(f) section 1 of the Inclosure and Drainage (Rates) Act 1833;\n(g) section 1 of the Geological Survey Act 1845;\n(h) section 159 of the Inclosure Act 1845;\n(i) section 18 of the London Hackney Carriage Act 1853;\n(j) the Second Part of the Schedule to the Promissory Oaths Act 1868;\n(k) paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the Children and Young Persons Act 1933;\n(l) section 19(1) of the Prison Act 1952;\n(m) sections 2(2), 85(1), 187(1), 188(1) and 193(1) and (2) of the Licensing Act 1964;\n(n) section 177 of the Representation of the People Act 1983.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "7 Anne c.14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "11 Geo. 2 c.19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "13 Geo. 3 c.81."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "56 Geo. 3 c.141."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "57 Geo. 3 c.93."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "3 & 4 Will. 4 c.35."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "8 & 9 Vict. c.63."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "8 & 9 Vict. c.118."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "16 & 17 Vict. c.33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "31 & 32 Vict. c.72."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "1933 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "1952 c. 52, as amended by Schedule 30 to the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "1964 c. 26, as amended by S.I. 1985/1383 and paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/22",
      "affecting_title": "Access to Justice Act 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/22",
      "affecting_title": "Access to Justice Act 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/22",
      "affecting_title": "Access to Justice Act 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/22",
      "affecting_title": "Access to Justice Act 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1997/25",
      "affecting_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed)"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1997/25",
      "affecting_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/674/schedule/paragraph/5",
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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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