{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2024/rule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2024/rule-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/254",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-2024",
  "path": "rule/3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Magistrates’ Courts (Hearsay Evidence in Civil Proceedings) Rules 1999",
  "text": "In the Magistrates’ Courts (Hearsay Evidence in Civil Proceedings) Rules 1999, in rule 2 (application and interpretation) after paragraph (4) insert—\n“(5) These rules shall not apply on an application for a domestic abuse protection order under section 28 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (domestic abuse protection orders on application).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/681; rule 2 was amended by S.I. 2011/1434."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/254/rule/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:33:50.265051+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."
}