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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-training-and-appraisal-scotland-order-2016/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/329",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices of the Peace (Training and Appraisal) (Scotland) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-training-and-appraisal-scotland-order-2016",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 2007 Act” means the Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007;\n“the 2007 Order” means the Justices of the Peace (Scotland) Order 2007;\n“the 2008 Act” means the Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008;\n“ACJI” means the Advisory Council of the Judicial Institute;\n“JAC” means a Justices’ Appraisal Committee established in accordance with the 2007 Order;\n“JP” means a justice of the peace appointed under the 2007 Act;\n“JP member” has the meaning given in article 9(2)(a) of this Order;\n“JTAC” means a Justices’ Training and Appraisal Committee established in accordance with article 9 of this Order;\n“JTAC training” means training delivered under the auspices of a JTAC, and which the sheriffdom training programme designates as qualifying as mandatory training;\n“JTCJI” means the Justices’ Training Committee of the Judicial Institute established in accordance with article 4 of this Order;\n“Judicial Institute” means the Judicial Institute for Scotland established by the Lord President for the purposes of discharging the Lord President’s responsibilities for making and maintaining arrangements for the training of judicial office holders in accordance with section 2(2)(d) of the 2008 Act;\n“Judicial Institute training” means training delivered under the auspices of the Judicial Institute, which the JTCJI designates in the national training programme as qualifying as mandatory training;\n“Judicial Office” means the Judicial Office for Scotland in the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service which supports the Lord President in exercising the Lord President’s non-judicial functions;\n“legal adviser” means a clerk of a JP court appointed under section 63 of the 2007 Act and who acts as legal adviser to the JP court in accordance with section 63(5) of the 2007 Act;\n“Lord President” means the Lord President of the Court of Session;\n“mandatory training” means the training mentioned in article 3 of this Order;\n“national curriculum” means the curriculum for JPs published by the JTCJI and updated from time to time, which sets out the training objectives for all JPs;\n“national training programme” means the annual direction on training approved and issued by the JTCJI in accordance with article 6 of this Order;\n“Sheriffdom Legal Adviser” means the legal adviser who is appointed by the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service to carry out managerial functions in relation to all legal advisers within a sheriffdom;\n“sheriffdom training programme” means the programme of training to be delivered by the JTAC, that is produced annually by each JTAC in accordance with article 11 of this Order;\n“year” means the period from 1st January to 31st December.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2007/210."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2008 asp 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 63 was amended by the Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008 (asp 6), section 57(3) and paragraph 5(3)(c), schedule 5; and by the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), paragraph 40(4), schedule 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/329/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:22:00.262637+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."
}