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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-grants-regulations-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2165",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Grants) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-grants-regulations-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 2nd September 1998\nLaid before Parliament 3rd September 1998\nComing into force 30th September 1998\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by Section 57(4A) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997, with the concurrence of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 25; subsection (4A) was inserted by section 10 of the Local Government (Contracts) Act 1997 (c. 65)."
    }
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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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