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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-training-and-development-committee-rules-2007/article-42",
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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/42",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Formation of a Magistrates’ Area Training Committee",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) there shall be a MATC for each courts board area in existence on 1st January 2006.\n(2) A MATC may apply to the Lord Chancellor to establish more than one MATC in its MATC area.\n(3) If, after consulting the Lord Chief Justice, the Lord Chancellor agrees to an application made under paragraph (2), he shall determine the membership of the MATCs and the terms of office of its members having regard, as far as practicable, to the requirements of rules 43 to 45.\n(4) Two or more MATCs may establish a combined MATC and the composition of a combined MATC shall be in accordance with rule 44.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1206",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Bodies (Abolition of Courts Boards) Order 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1609/article/42",
    "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."
}