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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-training-and-development-committee-rules-2007/article-21",
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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/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Functions of a FTDC",
  "text": "(1) Each FTDC shall—\n(a) establish a scheme for appraising family justices;\n(b) identify the training needs of family justices and, no later than 30th September in each year, give the relevant MATC a report of those training needs;\n(c) arrange for family justices to attend the relevant training in accordance with rule 31;\n(d) establish, in consultation with the family panel, the Area Director and the justices’ clerk, the number of family justices and approved family court chairmen needed for the local justice area; and\n(e) maintain a list of approved family court chairmen among the family justices assigned to its local justice area.\n(2) In paragraph (1), the relevant MATC means the MATC for the MATC area in which the local justice area covered by the FTDC is located.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/1493",
      "affecting_title": "The Justices of the Peace (Training and Development Committee) (Amendment) Rules 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1609/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:51:36.260430+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."
}