{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-order-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-order-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3009",
  "legislation_title": "The Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-order-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 3rd November 1999\nComing into force 1st December 1999\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 and paragraph 20 of Schedule 14 to the Access to Justice Act 1999, makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 25. A new version of section 4 is substituted by section 75 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22). This is the first order under the substituted section 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1999 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3009/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."
}