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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-forfeiture-of-political-donations-amendment-rules-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/745",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Forfeiture of Political Donations) (Amendment) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-forfeiture-of-political-donations-amendment-rules-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nMade 12th July 2016\nLaid before Parliament 14th July 2016\nComing into force 8th August 2016\nThe Lord Chief Justice, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 144(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 and paragraph 19(1) of Schedule 4 to the Recall of MPs Act 2015, makes the following Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43. Section 144(1) was amended by section 15(1) of, and paragraphs 99 and 102(1) and (3)(a) and (b) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), section 109(1), paragraph 245(1) and (2) of Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), article 3(2), paragraph 1(1) and (4) of Schedule 2 to, S.I. 2012/2398, section 17(6) of, and paragraph 39 and 52 of Part 2 and paragraph 99 of Part 3 of Schedule 10 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2015 c. 25."
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/745/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
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