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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-blood-tests-rules-1971/article-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1971/1991",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Blood Tests) Rules 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-blood-tests-rules-1971",
  "path": "article/10",
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  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If any person fails to comply with the provisions of Rule 8 or 9 of these Rules, the justices' clerk shall not take any further steps required of him by these Rules without first informing the court and receiving its instructions to do so.\n(2) If the court is informed by the justices' clerk in accordance with paragraph (1) of this Rule, it may vary or revoke the direction or may make such order as to the hearing or the continuation of the hearing of the complaint as appears to the court to be appropriate in all the circumstances and shall cause the parties to be notified.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/776",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Blood Tests) (Amendment) Rules 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/879",
      "affecting_title": "The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) (No.2) Order 2014"
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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."
}