{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1933/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1933/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/23-24/36",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1933",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1933",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to abolish grand juries and amend the law as to the presentment of indictments; to provide for the summary determination of questions as to liability for death duties; to make provision for alternative procedure for the recovery of Crown debts and to enable proceedings by the Crown to be instituted in county courts in appropriate cases; to amend the procedure as to certain prerogative writs and as to trials by jury in the High Court; to amend the law as to the payment of costs by and to the Crown; to provide for the further delegation of the jurisdiction of the Master in Lunacy; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[28th July 1933]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 2, 10(1)(2), and Sch. 2 were originally published in SIF 39:1 (Criminal Law; General) and ss. 7, 9 and 10 in SIF 39A (Crown Proceedings)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "By Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), S. 10(1), Sch. 12 para. 23; S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(1), Sch.1 it is provided (14.10.1991) that in relation to any time before the commencement of s. 70 of that 1991 Act (which came into force on 1.10.1992 by S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2) references in any enactment amended by that 1991 Act, to youth courts shall be construed as references to Juvenile Courts."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1.9.1933 by s. 10(4) (now repealed)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/23-24/36/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:37:06.274698+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."
}