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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-blood-tests-rules-1971/article-8",
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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/8",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Within 14 days, or such longer period as the court may order, of the giving of the direction, the applicant, unless he has been granted legal aid under the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949, shall pay to the justices' clerk such sum as appears to the justices' clerk to be sufficient to pay the fees of the sampler and tester in respect of taking and testing samples for the purpose of giving effect to the direction.",
  "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/8",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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