{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-extradition-rules-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-extradition-rules-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1597",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-extradition-rules-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 4th September 1989\nLaid before Parliament 6th September 1989\nComing into force 27th September 1989\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under that section, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 144 was extended by section 145 of that Act and by the Extradition Act 1989 (c. 33), sections 10(3) and 14(2) and Schedule 1, paragraph 9(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1597/introduction",
    "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."
}