{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-245",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-245.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/39",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/245",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "245",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Amend section 144 (rule committee) as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), after “prescribing” insert\n“except in relation to—\n(a) any criminal cause or matter, or\n(b) family proceedings,”,\nand for “and justices' chief executives” substitute “ and designated officers for magistrates' courts ”.\n(3) In subsection (2), omit “the President of the Family Division of the High Court, the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate)”.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Omit subsection (5).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 245(4) repealed (18.9.2012) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Crown Court Rule Committee and Magistrates Courts Rule Committee) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2398), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 245 partly in force at 7.10.2005; Sch. 8 para. 245 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 110(1)(2); Sch. 8 para. 245(1)(2) in force for certain purposes at 1.9.2004 by S.I. 2004/2066, art. 2(c)(xi) (subject to art. 3); Sch. 8 para. 245(3)(4)(5) in force for certain purposes at 1.4.2005 by S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)(iii)(iv); Sch. 8 para. 245(2) in force for certain further purposes at 7.10.2005 by S.I. 2005/2744, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 245(1)-(3) in force at 6.4.2011 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2010/2921, art. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/18",
      "affecting_title": "Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/25",
      "affecting_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/49",
      "affecting_title": "Road Safety Act 2006"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/schedule/8/paragraph/245",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:53.122162+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."
}