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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-witnesses-addresses-rules-1990/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/336",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Witnesses' Addresses) Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-witnesses-addresses-rules-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 26th February 1990\nLaid before Parliament 6th March 1990\nComing into force 2nd April 1990\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, 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 is extended by section 145 of that Act."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/336/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."
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