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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-constitution-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2395",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-constitution-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 31st August 1999\nLaid before Parliament 1st September 1999\nComing into force 27th September 1999\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 29 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 25. A new version of section 29 is substituted by section 82 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22), subject to saving provisions for Greater London in paragraphs 30 and 31 of Schedule 14 to the Access to Justice Act 1999. Section 82 comes into force on 27th September 1999."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2395/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."
}