[Doc] Removed Mentions of the New Backend System

Signed-off-by: Andre Wanlin <awanlin@spotify.com>
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description: How to define custom permission rules for existing resources
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This documentation is written for [the new backend system](../backend-system/index.md) which is the default since Backstage [version 1.24](../releases/v1.24.0.md). If you are still on the old backend system, you may want to read [its own article](https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/v1.37.0/docs/permissions/custom-rules--old.md) instead, and [consider migrating](../backend-system/building-backends/08-migrating.md)!
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For some use cases, you may want to define custom [rules](../references/glossary.md#rule-permission-plugin) in addition to the ones provided by a plugin. In the [previous section](./writing-a-policy.md) we used the `isEntityOwner` rule to control access for catalog entities. Let's extend this policy with a custom rule that checks what [system](https://backstage.io/docs/features/software-catalog/system-model#system) an entity is part of.
## Define a custom rule