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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-training-and-development-committee-rules-2007/article-47",
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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/47",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Functions of a MATC",
  "text": "(1) A MATC shall—\n(a) consider the training needs identified by BTDCs, and, where appropriate, FTDCs and the ILYTDC in accordance with rules 11(2)(c), 21(1)(b) and 29(1)(b); and\n(b) produce, no later than the end of February each year, a training plan for the period of the following April to March.\n(2) The content of the training plan shall include—\n(a) the proposed types of training;\n(b) the number of justices who are to receive training;\n(c) the place or places where the training is likely to be provided; and\n(d) the proposed dates of the training.\n(3) Each MATC shall also provide, no later than 30th September each year, an annual report to the Lord Chief Justice on training which was undertaken in the preceding April to March, which shall include—\n(a) information on the types of training that have taken place in that period;\n(b) an evaluation of the training that has taken place;\n(c) the cost of the training;\n(d) information on the number of magistrates who attended the training; and\n(e) any substantial respects in which the training that has taken place has differed from the training that was proposed in the training plan for that period.\n(4) A MATC, when producing a training plan under paragraph (1)(b) or providing an annual report under paragraph (3), shall have regard to any guidance issued by the Lord Chief Justice as to the form or content of the training plan or report.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/1493",
      "affecting_title": "The Justices of the Peace (Training and Development Committee) (Amendment) Rules 2011"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2011/1493",
      "affecting_title": "The Justices of the Peace (Training and Development Committee) (Amendment) Rules 2011"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1609/article/47",
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  "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."
}