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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-detention-and-forfeiture-of-listed-assets-rules-2017/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1293",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Detention and Forfeiture of Listed Assets) Rules 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-detention-and-forfeiture-of-listed-assets-rules-2017",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prior approval of searches for property",
  "text": "(1) An application to a justice of the peace under section 303E(1)of the Act for prior approval of a search for property under section 303C of the Act may be made without notice.\n(2) A justice of the peace may grant such an application without a hearing and may conduct any hearing in private.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 16.4.2018, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1293/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:04:20.291475+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."
}