{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-no-2-rules-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/610",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-no-2-rules-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 27th February 2001\nLaid before Parliament 2nd March 2001\nComing into force 1st April 2001\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, as extended by section 145 of that Act, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 144, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 144 is amended by section 90 of, and paragraph 113 of Schedule 13 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/610/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."
}