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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-1989/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/300",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 1st March 1989\nLaid before Parliament 7th March 1989\nComing into force 3rd April 1989\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power 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 is extended by section 145 of that Act."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/300/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."
}