{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-transfer-of-justices-clerks-functions-miscellaneous-amendments-rules-2001/schedule/paragraph-70",
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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/70",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "The Magistrates' Courts (Forms) Rules 1981",
  "text": "In Schedule 2—\n(a) in Form 13, in the Note, after “clerk of the court” insert “justices' chief executive for the court”;\n(b) in Forms 20, 46 (in each place where it occurs), 47 (in each place where it occurs), 59, 61 (in each place where it occurs), 53A, 53B, 62, 88, 133 (in each place where it occurs), 146, 153A, 153B, 158 and 159 (in each place where it occurs), for “Justices' Clerk” substitute “Justices' Chief Executive”;\n(c) in Forms 21, 28, 48, 60, 63, 97, 114, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 131, 132 and 154, for “Clerk of” substitute “Justices' Chief Executive for”;\n(d) in Forms 25 and 53B, for “Clerk to”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “Chief Executive to”, and in Form 53B for “CLERK TO”, in both places where it occurs, substitute “CHIEF EXECUTIVE TO”;\n(e) in Form 27—\n(i) for “the Clerk of the Court” substitute “the Justices Chief Executive for the Court”;\n(ii) for “the Clerk”, in each other place where it occurs, substitute “the Justices' Chief Executive”; and\n(iii) for “the clerk” substitute “the justices' chief executive”;\n(f) in Form 59, for “clerk of” substitute “justices' chief executive for”;\n(g) in Forms 59 and 60, for “the clerk making the order” substitute “the justices' chief executive making the order”;\n(h) in Form 63, for “clerk of” substitute “justices' chief executive for”; and\n(i) in Forms 109, 118, 119, 120 and 129, below “Clerk of the Court” insert “Justices' Chief Executive for the Court”, and, in Form 148, after “Clerk of the Court” insert “/Justices' Chief Executive for the Court”.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/615/schedule/paragraph/70",
    "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."
}