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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-hereford-and-worcester-and-shropshire-amalgamation-order-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1705",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire) Amalgamation Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-committees-hereford-and-worcester-and-shropshire-amalgamation-order-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 14th June 1999\nLaid before Parliament 16th June 1999\nComing into force\nfor the purpose of articles 2 and 4 1st April 2001\nfor all other purposes 12th July 1999\nWhereas the magistrates' courts committees for the retained counties of Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire 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 their areas:\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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