# Courts Act 2003, Paragraph 237


(1) Amend section 121 (constitution and place of sitting of court) as follows.
(2) Omit subsection (3).
(3) For subsection (4), substitute—
“(4) Subject to the provisions of any enactment to the contrary, a magistrates' court must sit in open court if it is—
(a) trying summarily an information for an indictable offence,
(b) trying an information for a summary offence,
(c) imposing imprisonment,
(d) hearing a complaint, or
(e) holding an inquiry into the means of an offender for the purposes of section 82.”
(4) In subsection (5), omit “, or sitting in an occasional court-house”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/schedule/8/paragraph/237 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-237
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