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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994-commencement-no-8-and-transitional-provisions-order-1995/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/685",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1995",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions on 1st April 1995",
  "text": "Subject to articles 5 and 6, the following provisions of the 1994 Act shall come into force on 1st April 1995—\n(a) section 72 (supplementary provisions as to magistrates' courts committees);\n(b) section 73 (general powers and duties of magistrates' courts committees);\n(c) section 75 (justices' chief executives, justices' clerks and staff);\n(d) section 76 (appointment and removal of justices' clerks);\n(e) section 77 (justices' chief executives and justices' clerks to be employed under contracts of service);\n(f) section 80 (organisation of justices' clerks in inner London area);\n(g) section 81 (division of work in inner London area);\n(h) section 83(1) (administrative and financial arrangements for magistrates' courts);\n(i) section 83(2) so far as it applies to section 57 of the 1979 Act;\n(j) section 84 (local authority land appropriated to magistrates' courts purposes);\n(k) section 88(6) (default powers);\n(l) section 91(1) (magistrates' courts: minor and consequential amendments), so far as it relates to the entries in Parts I and II of Schedule 8 referred to in article 7 below;\n(m) 5section 91(2) and (3);\n(n) section 93 (repeals) so far as it relates to the entries in Part II of Schedule 9 (magistrates' courts: repeals) referred to in article 8 below.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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