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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-modification-rules-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3046",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Modification) Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-modification-rules-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 6th December 1998\nLaid before Parliament 9th December 1998\nComing into force 4th January 1999\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, and after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 144, hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 144 was amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 4), section 125(3) and Schedule 18, paragraph 25; section 144 is extended by section 145 of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3046/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."
}