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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-custodianship-orders-amendment-rules-1989/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/383",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Custodianship Orders) (Amendment) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-custodianship-orders-amendment-rules-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 8th March 1989\nLaid before Parliament 10th March 1989\nComing into force 1st April 1989\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 is extended by section 145 of that Act and by section 46(4) of the Children Act 1975 (c. 72) as amended by the said Act of 1980, Schedule 7, paragraph 138."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/383/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."
}