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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-constitution-regulations-1994/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2811",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-constitution-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Justices of the Peace Act 1979;\n“committee” means a magistrates' courts committee established under Part II of the Act and “committee area” means the area to which the committee relates;\n“justice” means a justice of the peace whose name has not been entered in the supplemental list.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2811/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:23:45.893077+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."
}