{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-act-1988-modification-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-act-1988-modification-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2227",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid Act 1988 (Modification) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-act-1988-modification-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Legal Aid Act 1988;\nany reference to a section by number alone means the section so numbered in the Act;\nany reference to a person appearing or being brought before a magistrates' court includes a person appearing or being brought before a justices' clerk acting under section 50 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (early administrative hearings).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2227/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:40:24.365005+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."
}