{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-magistrates-courts-etc-order-1986/article-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/399",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Magistrates' Courts etc.) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-magistrates-courts-etc-order-1986",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Court records",
  "text": "(1) Any process, records, or other documents in the custody, by virtue of his office, of the clerk to the justices for a petty sessional division shall, on and after 1st April 1986, be retained by that clerk in his capacity as clerk to the justices for the respective new petty sessions area or, if he does not hold that clerkship, shall, as soon as may be, be transferred to the custody of the clerk to the justices for the respective new petty sessions area.\n(2) Copies of and extracts from any such record or other document as aforesaid made or certified on or after 1st April 1986 by the clerk to the justices for the respective new petty sessions area shall be of the same effect as if they had been made or certified by the clerk to the justices for the petty sessional division.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/399/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:52:58.135493+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."
}