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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-anti-social-behaviour-orders-rules-2002/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-anti-social-behaviour-orders-rules-2002/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2784",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Anti-Social Behaviour Orders) Rules 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-anti-social-behaviour-orders-rules-2002",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Delegation by justices' clerk",
  "text": "(1) In this rule, “employed as a clerk of the court” has the same meaning as in rule 2(1) of the Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) Rules 1979.\n(2) Anything authorised to be done by, to or before a justices' clerk under these Rules, may be done instead by, to or before a person employed as a clerk of the court where that person is appointed by the magistrates' courts committee to assist him and where that person has been specifically authorised by the justices' clerk for that purpose.\n(3) Any authorisation by the justices' clerk under paragraph (2) shall be recorded in writing at the time the authority is given or as soon as practicable thereafter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/570 as amended by S.I. 1998/3107, 1999/2814, and 2001/2269."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2784/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:28.614545+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."
}