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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2004/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2993",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2004",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 2004 and shall come into force on 15th December 2004 or on the day that sections 98 to 110 of the 2003 Act (Evidence of Bad Character) come into force, whichever is later.",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2993/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:15:36.001121+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."
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