{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/39",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Designated officers and magistrates' courts",
  "text": "(1) Any reference in an enactment to the designated officer, in relation to a magistrates' court, justice of the peace or local justice area, is to a person who is—\n(a) appointed by the Lord Chancellor under section 2(1) or provided under a contract made by virtue of section 2(4), and\n(b) designated by the Lord Chancellor in relation to that court, justice of the peace or area.\n(2) In this section “magistrates' court” includes—\n(a) a committee of justices, ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 37(2)(a) omitted (6.4.2020) by virtue of Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (c. 33), s. 4(3), Sch. para. 31(a); S.I. 2020/24, reg. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 37(2)(b) omitted (6.4.2020) by virtue of Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (c. 33), s. 4(3), Sch. para. 31(b); S.I. 2020/24, reg. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/section/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:53.122162+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}