{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2167",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 27 August 1998\nLaid before Parliament 3rd September 1998\nComing into force 30th September 1998\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 144 and with justices of the peace and justices' clerks for the areas specified in rule 3(4) below, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 144 is extended by sections 145 and 146 of that Act, by section 45 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) and by section 49 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2167/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."
}