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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maximum-number-of-stipendiary-magistrates-order-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3319",
  "legislation_title": "The Maximum Number of Stipendiary Magistrates Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maximum-number-of-stipendiary-magistrates-order-1999",
  "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 1997 to be raised from 50 to 56.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3319/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:23.432509+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."
}