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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maximum-number-of-stipendiary-magistrates-order-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1924",
  "legislation_title": "The Maximum Number of Stipendiary Magistrates Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maximum-number-of-stipendiary-magistrates-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order in Council provides for the maximum number of stipendiary magistrates (other than metropolitan stipendiary magistrates) appointed under the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 to be raised from forty to fifty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1924/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:20.286904+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."
}