{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/37",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Disorder Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Youth courts: power of stipendiary magistrates to sit alone.",
  "text": "(1) In paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 to the 1933 Act (constitution of youth courts)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), after the word “shall”, in the first place where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words “either consist of a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate sitting alone or” and the word “shall”, in the other place where it occurs, shall cease to have effect;\n(b) in paragraph (b), after the words “the chairman” there shall be inserted the words “(where applicable)”; and\n(c) in paragraph (c), after the words “the other members” there shall be inserted the words “(where applicable)”.\n(2) In paragraph 17 of that Schedule, the words “or, if a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate, may sit alone” shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 48 wholly in force; S. 48 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 121. In force at 30.9.1998 by S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1) (subject to savings in arts. 5-8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/22",
      "affecting_title": "Access to Justice Act 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/37/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:25.156552+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."
}