{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-and-justices-clerks-costs-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-and-justices-clerks-costs-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1296",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices and Justices' Clerks (Costs) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-and-justices-clerks-costs-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“claim” means a claim for costs made by the receiving party;\n“costs judge” means a taxing master of the Supreme Court;\n“order” means an order of the court made under section 53A(3) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 that the Lord Chancellor make a payment in respect of the costs of a person in the proceedings;\n“proceedings” means proceedings in respect of any act or omission of a justice of the peace or a justices' clerk in the execution (or purported execution) of his duty—\n(i) as a single justice; or\n(ii) as a justices' clerk exercising, by virtue of any statutory provision, any of the functions of a single justice;\n“receiving party” means the person in whose favour the order is made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/879",
      "affecting_title": "The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) (No.2) Order 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1296/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:52:01.943299+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."
}