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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-magistrates-courts-recording-and-broadcasting-order-2026/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348287615",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates’ Courts (Recording and Broadcasting) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-magistrates-courts-recording-and-broadcasting-order-2026",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“broadcast” means the transmission to members of the public of a recording of sentencing remarks to which this Order applies;\n“court” means the magistrates’ court;\n“judge” means the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) designated under section 23(a) of the Courts Act 2003;\n“recording” means a visual or sound recording on any medium from which a single image, a moving image or any sound may be produced or reproduced, or the making of any such recording, and “record” and “recorded” are to be construed accordingly;\n“sentencing remarks” means remarks made by the judge in the court when sentencing an offender for an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 39. Section 23 was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)."
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:36:48.679913+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."
}