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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-training-and-development-committee-rules-2007/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1609",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices of the Peace (Training and Development Committee) Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-training-and-development-committee-rules-2007",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules—\n“a BTDC” means a Bench Training and Development Committee; and references to justices, in relation to a BTDC, mean justices assigned to the local justice area or areas for which the BTDC is established;\n“a FTDC” means a Family Training and Development Committee; and references to family justices, in relation to a FTDC, mean family justices assigned to the local justice area or areas for which the FTDC is established;\n“a MATC” means a Magistrates’ Area Training Committee;\n“approved court chairman” means a justice approved to preside in magistrates’ courts other than family proceedings courts, youth courts or licensing or betting licence committees in accordance with these Rules;\n“approved family court chairman” means a family justice approved to preside in a family proceedings court in accordance with these Rules;\n“approved youth court chairman” means a youth justice approved to preside in a youth court in accordance with these Rules;\n“courts board area” means an area of England and Wales for which there is a courts board under section 4 of the Courts Act 2003;\n“election meeting” means the meeting held in accordance with rule 11 of the Justices of the Peace (Size and Chairmanship of Bench) Rules 2005;\n“family election meeting” means the meeting held in accordance with rule 4(2) of the Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution of Committees and Right to Preside) Rules 2007;\n“family justice” means a justice who has been authorised to sit as a member of a family proceedings court;\n“family panel” means the Committee established in accordance with rule 3 of the Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution of Committees and Right to Preside) Rules 2007; and where a combined family panel has been formed in accordance with rule 5 of those Rules means that combined family panel;\n“Greater London area” means the local justice areas covering the London Boroughs listed in Part I of Schedule 1;\n“Inner London area” means the local justice areas covering the London Boroughs listed in Part II of Schedule 1;\n“justice” means a lay justice and, in relation to a local justice area, means a justice who is assigned to that area;\n“justices’ clerk”, in relation to a local justice area, means a justices’ clerk assigned to that area and includes any person acting as such;\n“MATC area” means an area of England and Wales for which there is a MATC established in accordance with rule 42;\n“the ILYTDC” means the Inner London Youth Training and Development Committee; and references to youth justices, in relation to the ILYTDC mean the youth justices assigned to the local justice areas within the Inner London area;\n“youth election meeting” means the meeting held in accordance with rule 4(2) of the Youth Courts (Constitution of Committees and Right to Preside) Rules 2007;\n“youth panel” means the Committee established in accordance with rule 3 of the Youth Courts (Constitution of Committees and Right to Preside) Rules 2007; and where a combined youth panel has been formed in accordance with rule 5 of those Rules means that combined youth panel; and\n“youth justice” means a justice who has been authorised to sit as a member of a youth court.\n(2) A reference in these Rules to a BTDC, FTDC or MATC includes, where appropriate, a combined BTDC, FTDC or MATC.\n(3) Where—\n(a) a rule requires consultation with, or reporting to, a person or body; and\n(b) in the context of the rule in question there is more than one such person or body to whom the rule could refer,\nconsultation shall take place with or, as the case may be, the report shall be made to, all the persons or bodies to whom the rule could refer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/553."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I 2007/1610."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/1611."
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1206",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Bodies (Abolition of Courts Boards) Order 2012"
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      "affecting_title": "The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) (No.2) Order 2014"
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      "affecting_title": "The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Family Court: Consequential Provision) (No.2) Order 2014"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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