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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-extradition-rules-1989/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1597",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-extradition-rules-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In these Rules–\n“the Act” means the Extradition Act 1989;\n“court of committal” and “metropolitan magistrate” have the same meanings as they have in the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 33."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1135",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) (Amendment) Rules 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1597/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:37:39.092790+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."
}