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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-remands-in-custody-order-1989/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/970",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Remands in Custody) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-remands-in-custody-order-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application of section 128A Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 to certain areas",
  "text": "Section 128A of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (remands in custody for more than eight days) shall have effect in the following areas, which are petty sessions areas within the meaning of section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979,–\nthe petty sessional division of East Central,\nthe outer London borough of Croydon,\nthe metropolitan district of Manchester, and\nthe petty sessional division of Nottingham,\nin relation to any accused person who has attained the age of 17.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 55, as amended by the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), section 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/35",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Remands in Custody)(Amendment) Order 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/970/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:43:29.446234+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."
}