{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-no-2-rules-2021/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2021/626",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-no-2-rules-2021",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 and shall come into force on 28th June 2021.\n(2) In rule 2 of these Rules, a reference to a rule by number alone means the rule so numbered in the Magistrates’ Courts Rules 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/552; relevant amendments were made by S.I. 1986/1332, 1992/457, 1992/709, 1997/706, 2001/610, 2003/3361, 2005/617 and 2009/3362."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/626/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:13:07.512529+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."
}