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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933/schedule-2/paragraph-15",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/23-24/12",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Young Persons Act 1933",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1933",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule—\n(a) each youth courtshall either consist of a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate sitting alone orconsist of a chairman and two other members and . . . have both a man and a woman among its members;\n(b) the chairman (where applicable)shall be a person nominated by the Lord Chief Justice, after consulting the Lord Chancellor, to act as chairman of youth courts for the metropolitan area and shall be either a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate or a lay justice for the inner London area selected, in such manner as may be provided by an order made by the Lord Chief Justice after consulting the Lord Chancellor, from a panel of such justices from time to time nominated by him; and\n(c) the other members (where applicable) shall be justices so selected from that panel.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 15(a)(b) substituted (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 100, Sch. 11 para. 40(2)(a); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 15(a) inserted (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 48(1)(a); S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(k)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 15(a) repealed (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, ss. 48(1)(a), 120(2), Sch. 10; S.I. 1998/3237, art. 2(1)(k)(3)(g)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 15(b) inserted (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 48(1)(b); S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(k)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 15(b) substituted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15, 148, Sch. 4 para. 363(4)(a) (with effect as mentioned in Sch. 4 para. 361); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(cc)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c. 42), s. 12(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 15(b) substituted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15, 148, Sch. 4 para. 363(4)(b) (with effect as mentioned in Sch. 4 para. 361); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(cc)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 15(c) inserted (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 48(1)(c); S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(k)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power to amend paras. 15-18 conferred by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), ss. 146(4), 155(7)"
    }
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