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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/913",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 23rd May 1988\nLaid before Parliament 8th June 1988\nComing into force 1st August 1988\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; by sections 18(2)(b), 32B (inserted by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72), section 64) and 32C (inserted by the Children and Young Persons (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 28), section 3) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54); by sections 7 and 12F of the Child Care Act 1980 (c. 5), the latter section inserted by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 1, paragraph 1; and by the Children and Young Persons (Amendment) Act 1986, section 4."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/913/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."
}