{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-209",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-209.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/39",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/209",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "209",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Amend section 59A (orders for periodical payment: proceedings by justices' chief executive) as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) for “a justices' chief executive” substitute “ the designated officer for a magistrates' court ”,\n(b) for “the relevant justices' chief executive” substitute “ the relevant designated officer ”, and\n(c) for “to that justices' chief executive” substitute “ to that designated officer ”.\n(3) In subsection (2)—\n(a) for “a justices' chief executive” substitute “ the designated officer for a magistrates' court ”, and\n(b) for “the relevant justices' chief executive for him” substitute “ the relevant designated officer for him ”.\n(4) In subsection (3), for “the relevant justices' chief executive, he” substitute “ the relevant designated officer, he ”.\n(5) In subsection (4)—\n(a) for “a justices' chief executive” substitute “ the relevant designated officer ”,\n(b) for “justices' chief executive cancelling” substitute “ relevant designated officer cancelling ”, and\n(c) for “justices' chief executive shall” substitute “ relevant designated officer shall ”.\n(6) In subsection (7), for the definition of “the relevant justices' chief executive” substitute—\n““the relevant designated officer”, in relation to an order, means—\n(a) in a case where payments under the order are required to be made to or through the designated officer for a magistrates' court, the designated officer for that magistrates' court;\n(b) in a case where such payments are required to be made by any method of payment falling within section 59(6) and the order was made by a magistrates' court, the designated officer for that magistrates' court; and\n(c) in a case where such payments are required to be made by any method of payment falling within section 59(6) and the order was not made by a magistrates' court, the designated officer for the magistrates' court in which the order is registered;”.\n(7) In the section heading, for “justices' chief executive” substitute “ designated officer ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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      "affecting_title": "Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026"
    },
    {
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/schedule/8/paragraph/209",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:53.122162+00:00"
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  "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."
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