{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-adoption-amendment-rules-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/820",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Adoption) (Amendment) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-adoption-amendment-rules-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 6th March 2001\nLaid before Parliament 9th March 2001\nComing into force 1st April 2001\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under that section, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 144 was amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), Schedule 18, paragraph 25 and by the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22), Schedule 11, paragraphs 26 and 29 and extended by the Adoption Act 1976 (c. 36), section 66(2)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/820/introduction",
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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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