{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-attendance-centre-rules-1992/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-attendance-centre-rules-1992/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2069",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Attendance Centre) Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-attendance-centre-rules-1992",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 27th August 1992\nLaid before Parliament 10th September 1992\nComing into force 1st October 1992\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under that section, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 144 was extended by section 145 of that Act and by section 18(2)(b) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2069/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:16:51.979099+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."
}