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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-administration-and-enforcement-regulations-1989/regulation-47",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/438",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-administration-and-enforcement-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Magistrates' courts",
  "text": "(1) Justices of the peace for a commission area within which is situated the area of a charging authority shall have jurisdiction to act under the provisions of this Part as respects that authority.\n(2) Subject to any other enactment authorising a stipendiary magistrate or other person to act by himself, a magistrates' court shall not under this Part hear a summons, entertain an application for a warrant or hold an inquiry as to means on such an application except when composed of at least two justices.\n(3) References to a justice of the peace in regulations 29(2) and 40(2) shall be construed subject to rule 3 of the Justices' Clerks Rules 1970 (which authorises certain matters authorised to be done by a justice of the peace to be done by a justices' clerk).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1970/231, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/247",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Community Charge and Council Tax, Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1880",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1880",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/675",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Wales) (Consequences of Local Government Changes) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2001/1076",
      "affecting_title": "The Community Charges, Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rating (Enforcement) (Magistrates' Courts) (Wales) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2026",
      "affecting_title": "The Community Charges, Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rating (Enforcement) (Magistrates' Courts) (England) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/438/regulation/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:47:36.116122+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."
}