{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-magistrates-courts-etc-amendment-order-2001/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/612",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Magistrates' Courts etc.) (Amendment) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-magistrates-courts-etc-amendment-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the Local Government (Magistrates' Courts etc.) Order 1985—\n(i) in article 3 (preliminary arrangements), in paragraph (3) for the words “justices' clerk”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “justices' chief executive” and in paragraph (8) for the words “justices' clerks” there shall be substituted the words “justices' chief executives”; and\n(ii) in article 4 (manner of election to and period of office etc.), in paragraph (2)(a)(i) and (f), for the words “clerk to the justices”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “justices chief executive”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/1383. The amending instruments are not relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/612/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:00:43.192974+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."
}