{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/section-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/section-65.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/39",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003",
  "path": "section/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) as Crown Court judges etc.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Schedule 4 contains amendments conferring functions on District Judges (Magistrates' Courts).\n(3) References in any enactment, instrument or other document to a district judge or deputy district judge do not include—\n(a) a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts), or\n(b) a Deputy District Judge (Magistrates' Courts).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 65(1) repealed (2.4.2012) by Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), s. 32(3), Sch. 5; S.I. 2012/669, art. 4(f)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/section/65",
    "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."
  }
}