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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-transfer-of-justices-clerks-functions-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-2001/schedule/paragraph-142",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/615",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-transfer-of-justices-clerks-functions-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-2001",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/142",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "142",
  "heading": "The Magistrates' Courts (Hearsay Evidence in Civil Proceedings) Rules 1999",
  "text": "For rule 4(3) substitute—\n“(3) On receipt of an application under paragraph (1)—\n(a) the justices' clerk must—\n(i) unless the court otherwise directs, allow sufficient time for the applicant to comply with paragraph (4); and\n(ii) fix the date, time and place of the hearing; and\n(b) the justices' chief executive must—\n(i) endorse the date, time and place of the hearing on the copies of the application filed by the applicant; and\n(ii) return the copies to the applicant forthwith.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2804",
      "affecting_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Revocations, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/615/schedule/paragraph/142",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:00:41.168890+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."
}