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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-regulation-of-investigatory-powers-rules-2012/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2563",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Regulation of Investigatory Powers) Rules 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-regulation-of-investigatory-powers-rules-2012",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "When these Rules apply",
  "text": "These Rules apply when, in a case which is not a criminal case, a justice of the peace can make an order approving—\n(a) the grant or renewal of an authorisation, or the giving or renewal of a notice, under section 23A of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000;\n(b) the grant or renewal of an authorisation under section 32A of the 2000 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 23; section 23A is inserted by section 37 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), with effect from 1 November 2012 (see S.I. 2012/2075, article 4(a) and article 6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 23; section 32A is inserted by section 38 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), with effect from 1 November 2012 (see S.I. 2012/2075, article 4(b) and article 6)."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2563/article/2",
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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."
}