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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-detention-and-forfeiture-of-cash-amendment-rules-2017/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1291",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Detention and Forfeiture of Cash) (Amendment) Rules 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-detention-and-forfeiture-of-cash-amendment-rules-2017",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In rule 2—\n(a) after paragraph (a) insert—\n“(aa) “document” includes any notification required to be given under these Rules;\n(ab) “electronic communication” has the meaning given by section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000;”; and\n(b) after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(ba) “the solicitor acting for a government department” means the solicitor identified as acting for that department in civil proceedings in the list published under section 17 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947;\n(bb) “the solicitor acting for the Secretary of State” means the solicitor identified as acting for the Home Office in civil proceedings in the list published under section 17 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 7. Section 15(1) is amended by section 406 of, and paragraph 158 of Schedule 17 to, the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1947 c. 44."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1291/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:04:21.098599+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."
}