{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-allowances-regulations-2015/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-allowances-regulations-2015/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1423",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices’ Allowances Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-allowances-regulations-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations revoke and replace the Justices’ Allowances Regulations 1976 (S.I. 1976/117) and the Justices’ Allowances (Amendment) Regulations 1976 (S.I. 1976/2118) governing the claiming of allowances by lay justices for travelling, subsistence or financial loss under section 15 of the Courts Act 2003.\nRegulation 2 requires any lay justice who wants to claim their allowances to submit an Annual Declaration. Schedule 1 prescribes the form of the Annual Declaration.\nRegulation 2 requires any lay justice who wants to claim their allowances to do so on the prescribed form set out at Schedule 2 to the Regulations. A different format (such as an electronic format) may be used with the Lord Chancellor’s agreement.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1423/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:34:35.957158+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."
}