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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Corporations.",
  "text": "The provisions of Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect where a corporation is charged with an offence before a magistrates’ court.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 46 applied (1.5.2009) by The Payment Services Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/209), regs. 1(2)(b)(xiii), 118(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 46 applied (12.12.2014) by The Immigration Act 2014 (Bank Accounts) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3085), regs. 1, 23(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 46 applied (13.7.2016) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Transparency of Securities Financing Transactions and of Reuse) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/715), regs. 1(2), 27(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 46 applied (13.10.2017) by The Payment Services Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/752), regs. 1(3)(d), 146(4)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:26:47.197891+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."
}