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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-order-1999/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-order-1999/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3009",
  "legislation_title": "The Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-order-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis is the first Order made under section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 as substituted by section 75 of the Access to Justice Act 1999. It specifies the petty sessions areas for England and Wales. Each of the areas was a petty sessions area immediately before section 75 came into force.\nThe map of petty sessions areas referred to in article 2(3) of the Order can be inspected at the Lord Chancellor’s Department, Selborne House, 54-60 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QW by any person at any reasonable time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3009/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:06.709347+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."
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