{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juvenile-courts-and-assessors-for-county-courts-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juvenile-courts-and-assessors-for-county-courts-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/302",
  "legislation_title": "Juvenile Courts and Assessors for County Courts (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juvenile-courts-and-assessors-for-county-courts-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Juvenile Courts Jurisdiction",
  "text": "For Regulation 3 of the Juvenile Courts and Assessors for County Courts Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 there shall be substituted the following Regulation—\n“3 (1) A juvenile court shall be constituted for each petty sessions district in Northern Ireland and, subject to paragraph (2), shall have jurisdiction in the petty sessions district for which it is constituted.\n(2) Where a juvenile court is sitting for the purpose of exercising any jurisdiction conferred by or under the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 it shall have jurisdiction throughout the county court division in which it is situated.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1979 No. 104"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/302/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:34:56.578512+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."
}