{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/23",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Advisory committees.",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may constitute, on a permanent or temporary basis, one or more advisory committees to advise him on such questions relating to the Senior Courts and the county court as he may from time to time refer to them, and shall appoint the members of any such committee with regard to their knowledge of the work of the courts and social conditions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 30 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), arts. 1(2), 9, Sch. 2 para. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 30 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 4; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(b)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 30 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 74; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/30",
    "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."
}