{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-consequential-provisions-no-2-order-2005/schedule/paragraph-137",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-consequential-provisions-no-2-order-2005/schedule/paragraph-137.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/617",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) ( No. 2) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-consequential-provisions-no-2-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/137",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "137",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In rule 7—\n(a) omit paragraph (1);\n(b) for paragraph (2) substitute the following paragraph:\n“(2) A designated officer for one local justice area (“the first local justice area”) may make a request to the designated officer for another local justice area (“the second local justice area”) for the temporary transfer of one or more justices from the panel for the second local justice area to the panel for the first local justice area for the purpose of hearing family proceedings specified in the request.”;\n(c) in paragraph (3), for “justices' chief executive for the second commission area” substitute “designated officer for the second local justice area”;\n(d) in paragraph (4), for “justices' chief executive” substitute “designated officer”;\n(e) in paragraph (5), for “petty sessions area” substitute “local justice area”; and\n(f) In paragraph (6), for “a petty sessions area in a different commission area if the Lord Chancellor appoints the justice nominated for the transfer to the commission area within which the petty sessions area falls” substitute “another local justice area if the justice nominated for the transfer is assigned to that area by the Lord Chancellor”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 137 in force at 1.4.2005, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/617/schedule/paragraph/137",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:04:59.153489+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."
}