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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-rules-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-rules-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/709",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices of the Peace Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-rules-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Justices Of The Peace, England And Wales\nMade 30th June 2016\nLaid before Parliament 7th July 2016\nComing into force in accordance with rule 1\nThe Senior Presiding Judge, as a nominee of the Lord Chief Justice under section 20(3) of the Courts Act 2003 makes the following Rules, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by:\nsections 10(4), 17(2) and (5), 18(6) and (7), 19(1) and (2), and 108(6) of the Courts Act 2003, and after consultation with the Lord Chancellor, the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee and the Family Procedure Rule Committee, in accordance with section 20(2) of that Act; and\nsection 45(4) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and after consultation with the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee in accordance with section 45(6) of that Act:",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 39. Section 20(2) was amended by paragraph 321 of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 c. 4 and by S.I. 2012/2398. Section 20(3) was inserted by paragraph 321 of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 39. Section 17 has been amended by paragraph 319(2) of Schedule 4(1) to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 c. 4. Section 19 has been amended by paragraph 320(2) of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 c. 4, and by paragraph 86 of Schedule 10 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 c. 22. Section 108(6) has been amended by paragraph 348 of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1933 c. 12. Section 45 was substituted by the Courts Act 2003, section 50(1) and amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, Schedule 4, paragraph 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/709/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:12.985248+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."
}