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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-detention-and-forfeiture-of-cash-rules-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2998",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Detention and Forfeiture of Cash) Rules 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-detention-and-forfeiture-of-cash-rules-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n(a) “the Act” means the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002;\n(b) “justices' clerk” means the justices' clerk for the justices who are to hear or have heard an application;\n(c) words and expressions used have the same meaning as in Chapter 3 of Part 5 of the Act;\n(d) a reference to a form is a reference to a form set out in the Schedule to these Rules or a form with the same effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2024/1043",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Detention, Freezing and Forfeiture of Cryptoassets, and Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2024"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2998/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:38:13.472123+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."
}