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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-blood-tests-rules-1971/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-blood-tests-rules-1971/article-12.json",
  "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/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "When arrangements have been made for the taking of samples, the justices' clerk shall—\n(a) give notice in Form 3 to each subject or, where a subject is under a disability, the person having the care and control of the subject, of the arrangements made for the taking of samples from the subject and shall require him, or where he is under a disability, the person having the care and control of him, to comply with the arrangements;\n(b) complete Parts I and II of a direction form in respect of each subject and send the direction form to the sampler who is to take the blood sample from that subject.",
  "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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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1991/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:37:32.200596+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."
}