{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/schedule-8/paragraph-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/schedule-8/paragraph-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/23",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/48",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the Criminal Justice Act 1967—\n(a) in all places where there occurs a reference to a court of assize or quarter sessions (sections . . . 56(1)(3)(5)(8)(11), 62(10) . . . and in Schedule 6 paragraphs 2, 14, 16, 21(c)) there shall be substituted a reference to the Crown Court.\n(b) in all places where there occurs a reference to a court of quarter sessions (sections 20, ... 56 . . . (6), 62(6)(7), . . . and in Schedule 6 paragraph 1) there shall be substituted a reference to the Crown Court.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Section numbers repealed by Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62), Sch. 6 and Legal Aid Act 1974 (c. 4), Sch. 5 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 48(b) repealed (5.4.2004) by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), ss. 332, 336, Sch. 37 Pt. 2; S.I. 2004/829, art. 2(2)(j)(I)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sub-section number repealed by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), Sch.9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Section numbers repealed by Legal Aid Act 1974 (c. 4) Sch. 5 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1967 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of Schedule 8 paras. 24(b), 35, 40, 48(a) and 57 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/schedule/8/paragraph/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:15.740722+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."
}