{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-modern-slavery-act-2015-rules-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1478",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Modern Slavery Act 2015) Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-modern-slavery-act-2015-rules-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nMade 7th July 2015\nLaid before Parliament 10th July 2015\nComing into force 31st July 2015\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 and sections 16(6) and 32 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.",
  "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 (c.29), 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), Schedule 2, paragraph 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2015 c. 30."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1478/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:34:09.880825+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."
}