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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1149",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Forms) (Amendment) Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-forms-amendment-rules-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 10th April 1999\nLaid before Parliament 13th April 1999\nComing into force 4th May 1999\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, as extended by section 145 of that Act, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 144, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43."
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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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