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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2003/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2003/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/423",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules insert a new rule into the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981 and a new form into the Magistrates' Courts (Forms) Rules 1981. The new rule and form are intended to deal with the situation where a magistrates' court makes an order under section 67 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 requiring a bank or building society to pay money held in an account maintained with the bank or building society to a justices' chief executive in satisfaction of a confiscation order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/423/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:24.190971+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."
}