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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-size-and-chairmanship-of-bench-rules-2002/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-size-and-chairmanship-of-bench-rules-2002/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/193",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices of the Peace (Size and Chairmanship of Bench) Rules 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-size-and-chairmanship-of-bench-rules-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n(a) “a BTDC” means a Bench Training and Development Committee established in accordance with rule 14;\n“election meeting” means a meeting held in accordance with rule 10;\n“first choice vote”, “second choice or subsequent choice vote” have the meaning specified in rule 6(4) and (5);\n“justice” means a justice of the peace whose name has not been entered in the supplemental list and, in relation to a petty sessions area, a justice who ordinarily acts in and for that area;\n“justices' clerk” in relation to a petty sessions area means a justices' clerk for that area and includes any person acting as such;\n“justices' chief executive” in relation to a petty sessions area means the justices' chief executive for the magistates' court committee area in which that petty sessions area falls and includes any person acting as such;\n“the Schedule” means the Schedule to these Rules;\n“the 1997 Act” means the Justices of the Peace Act 1997;\n“the supplemental list” means the supplemental list referred to in section 7 of the 1997 Act;\n(b) where a justices' chief executive has appointed a nominee in accordance with rule 19, references to a justices' chief executive shall be read as references to his nominee in relation to the function or functions for which he was appointed nominee;\n(c) references to a ballot are references to a ballot conducted under these Rules;\n(d) references to a postal ballot are references to a postal ballot conducted under rule 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 7 has been amended by the Access to Justice Act 1999, Schedule 11, paragraphs 43 and 45 and Schedule 15, Part V(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/1514",
      "affecting_title": "The Justices of the Peace (Size and Chairmanship of Bench) (Amendment) Rules 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/193/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:16:08.613732+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."
}