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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-blood-tests-amendment-rules-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/776",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Blood Tests) (Amendment) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-blood-tests-amendment-rules-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 6th March 2001\nLaid before Parliament 8th March 2001\nComing into force 1st April 2001\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 is extended by section 145 of that Act."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/776/introduction",
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  "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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