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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-maintenance-orders-act-1950-amendment-rules-1980/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1895",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Maintenance Orders Act 1950) (Amendment) Rules 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-maintenance-orders-act-1950-amendment-rules-1980",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nMade 19th November 1980\nLaid before Parliament 10th December 1980\nComing into Operation 1st January 1981\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 15 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 15, hereby makes the following rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "section 15 was extended by section 25 of the Maintenance Orders Act 1950 (c. 37) and section 122 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 (c. 55)"
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  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1895/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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