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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-and-family-proceedings-courts-constitution-amendment-rules-2000/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1873",
  "legislation_title": "The Youth Courts and Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution) (Amendment) Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-and-family-proceedings-courts-constitution-amendment-rules-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MAGISTRATES' COURTS\nPROCEDURE\nMade 14th July 2000\nLaid before Parliament 18th July 2000\nComing into force in accordance with rule 1\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under that section, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 144 is extended by sections 67 and 146 and section 67 was amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 11 to the Children Act 1989 (c. 41)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1873/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:08.661970+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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