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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-injunctions-anti-social-behaviour-rules-2015/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/423",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Injunctions: Anti-Social Behaviour) Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-injunctions-anti-social-behaviour-rules-2015",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates’ Courts (Injunctions: Anti-Social Behaviour) Rules 2015.\n(2) These Rules come into force on the day on which, and immediately after, section 1 of the 2014 Act comes into force.\n(3) In these Rules—\n(a) “the 2014 Act” means the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014;\n(b) a reference to a section or Schedule by number alone means the section or Schedule so numbered in the 2014 Act;\n(c) “applicant” means the person applying or who applied for the injunction, and “respondent” means the person against whom the injunction is or was applied for;\n(d) “defaulter” has the meaning given in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act;\n(e) “original applicant” has the meaning given in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act;\n(f) “Part 1 injunction” means an injunction under Part 1 of the 2014 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 1 comes into force in accordance with rule 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/423/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:46.813839+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."
}