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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-extradition-amendment-rules-2000/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1872",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) (Amendment) Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-extradition-amendment-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall come into force on the day on which section 78 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 22. Section 78 comes into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor appoints under section 108(1) and substitutes for sections 11 to 20 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) which provide for stipendiary magistrates, metropolitan stipendiary magistrates and a Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate new sections 10A to 10E which provide for District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) and a Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) in place of them; paragraph 22 of Schedule 14 provides for any person who is a stipendiary magistrate or metropolitan stipendiary magistrate immediately before the time section 78 comes into force to be treated (unless he would have been required by reason of his age to vacate his office) as having been appointed to be a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) at that time."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1872/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:10.048950+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."
}