{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990/schedule-18/paragraph-25",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/41",
  "legislation_title": "Courts and Legal Services Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/18/paragraph/25",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In section 150(1) (interpretation) after the definition of “impose imprisonment\" there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““legal representative” means an authorised advocate or authorised litigator, as defined by section 119(1) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;”.\n(3) For the words—\n(a) “counsel or a solicitor” in sections 4(4)(b), 6(2)(b), 23(1)(a) and 128(1B);\n(b) “counsel or solicitor” in sections 122(1) and (3);\nthere shall be substituted “ a legal representative\" ”.\n(4) For the words—\n(a) “solicitor” in sections 6(2)(a), 12(2), 128(1A)(ii) and (3B);\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nthere shall be substituted “ legal representative\" ”.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) For the words—\n(a) “solicitors and counsel” in section 69(2)(b);\n(b) “solicitors or counsel” in section 69(4),\nthere shall be substituted “ legal representatives\" ”.\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 25(4)(b) repealed (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 43, s. 75, Sch. 8; S.I. 2001/919, art. 2(g) Table"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 25(4)(c) repealed (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 29, s. 93, Sch. 9 Pt. II; S.I. 1995/685, art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 25(5) repealed (18.6.2012 for specified purposes, 5.11.2012 for specified purposes, 28.5.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), s. 336(3)(4), Sch. 37 Pt. 4; S.I. 2012/1320, art. 4(1)(d)(2)(3) (with art. 5) (see S.I. 2012/2574, art. 4(2) and S.I. 2013/1103, art. 4); S.I. 2012/2574, art. 2(2)(3)(d), Sch. (with arts. 3, 4) (as amended (4.11.2012) by S.I. 2012/2761, art. 2) (with S.I. 2013/1103, art. 4); S.I. 2013/1103, art. 2(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 25(7) 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. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/18/paragraph/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:54.699974+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."
}