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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-avon-and-somerset-amalgamation-order-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3133",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Avon and Somerset) Amalgamation Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-avon-and-somerset-amalgamation-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 10th December 1998\nLaid before Parliament 14th December 1998\nComing into force\nfor the purpose of articles 2 and 4 1st April 2000\nfor all other purposes 4th January 1999\nWhereas the magistrates' courts committees for the retained counties of Avon and Somerset have submitted proposals to the Lord Chancellor under section 32(1) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 for the amalgamation of the magistrates' courts committees for those retained counties:\nAnd whereas the provisions of section 32(2) of that Act have been complied with:\nNow, therefore, the Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 32(3) and (8) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“retained county” is defined by section 72(1) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) in relation to England as the area of a non-metropolitan county created by Part I of the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), as it stood immediately before 1st April 1995."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1997 c. 25."
    }
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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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