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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2022/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2022/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/523",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2022",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nMade 9th May 2022\nLaid before Parliament 10th May 2022\nComing into force 7th June 2022\nThe Lord Chief Justice, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 144 was amended by section 109(1) and (3) and paragraphs 245(1), (2), (5) of Schedule 8 and Schedule 10 to the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), section 15(1) and paragraphs 99, 102(1), (2), (3)(a), (3)(b), (4) and (6) of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), section 208(1) and paragraphs 42, 43(b) of Schedule 21 to the Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), article 3(2) and paragraphs 1(1), (2) to (6) of Schedule 2 to S.I. 2012/2398, section 17(6) and paragraphs 39, 52 and 99 of Schedule 10 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22) and section 3 and paragraphs 5 and 10 of the Schedule to the Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (c. 33)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/523/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:00:19.440398+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."
}