{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-10E",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/25",
  "legislation_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed",
  "path": "section/10E",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10E",
  "heading": "Disapplication of restrictions.",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980—\n(a) requiring a magistrates’ court to be composed of two or more justices or to sit in a petty sessional court-house or an occasional court-house; or\n(b) limiting the powers of a magistrates’ court when composed of a single justice or when sitting elsewhere than in a petty sessional court-house,\nshall apply to any District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) sitting in a place appointed for the purpose.\n(2) Subsection (1) above does not apply to the hearing or determination of family proceedings within the meaning of section 65 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 10A-10E substituted (31.8.2000) for ss. 11-20 by 1999 c. 22, s. 78(1) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1980 c.43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/25/section/10E",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:26:14.706489+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."
}