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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1609",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices of the Peace (Training and Development Committee) Rules 2007",
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  "heading": "Authorising Body",
  "text": "(1) This rule provides for the BTDC, the FTDC and the ILYTDC to grant an authorisation, on behalf of the Lord Chief Justice, for a justice to sit as a member of a family proceedings court or a youth court.\n(2) The FTDC shall grant an authorisation for a justice assigned to its local justice area to sit as a member of a family proceedings court.\n(3) The BTDC shall grant an authorisation for a justice assigned to its local justice area to sit as a member of a family proceedings court if there is no FTDC established for that area.\n(4) The ILYTDC shall grant an authorisation for a justice assigned to a local justice area within the Inner London area to sit as a member of a youth court.\n(5) The BTDC shall grant an authorisation for a justice assigned to its local justice area to sit as a member of a youth court if its local justice area is not within the Inner London area.\n(6) In rules 38 to 41 ‘authorising body’ means the body which has power to grant an authorisation, in accordance with this rule, for a justice to sit as member of a family proceedings court or a youth court as the case may be.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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