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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-writ-and-appearance-1979/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1716",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Writ and Appearance) 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-writ-and-appearance-1979",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Rules of the Supreme Court (Writ and Appearance) 1979, and shall come into operation on 3rd June 1980, but nothing in these Rules shall apply in relation to any cause or matter begun before that date.\n(2) In these Rules an Order referred to by number means the Order so numbered in the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1966/1055, 1967/829, 1968/1244, 1970/944, 1861, 1971/354, 1269, 1955, 1972/1898, 1975/911, 1976/337, 1196, 1977/532, 960, 1955, 1978/579, 1979/402, 522."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1716/article/1",
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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."
}