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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-immigration-act-2014-freezing-orders-rules-2018/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-immigration-act-2014-freezing-orders-rules-2018/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/66",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Immigration Act 2014) (Freezing Orders) Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-immigration-act-2014-freezing-orders-rules-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nMade 19th January 2018\nLaid before Parliament 22nd January 2018\nComing into force in accordance with rule 1\nThe Lord Chief Justice, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c.43. Section 144 has been amended by the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c.22), Schedule 11, paragraphs 26 and 29; the Courts Act 2003 (c.39), Schedule 8, paragraph 245 and Schedule 10; the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), Schedule 4, paragraphs 99 and 102; the Legal Services Act 2007, Schedule 21, paragraphs 42 and 43; the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22), Schedule 10, paragraphs 39, 52 and 99; and by S.I. 2012/2398, article 3(2) and Schedule 2, paragraph 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/66/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:03:17.185871+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."
}