{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-magistrates-courts-etc-order-1986/article-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/399",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Magistrates' Courts etc.) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-magistrates-courts-etc-order-1986",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part of this Order—\n“justice” means a justice of the peace and any reference to a justice for a petty sessional division shall be construed as a reference to a justice who, as regards a time before 1st April 1986, ordinarily acts in and for that division and any reference to a justice for a petty sessions area shall be construed as a reference to a justice who, on and after 1st April 1986, ordinarily acts in and for that area;\n“petty sessional division” means any of the petty sessional divisions listed in column (1) of Schedule 2 to this Order, being petty sessional divisions which, in consequence of section 12 of the 1985 Act, cease to exist on 1st April 1986;\n“petty sessions area” has, except where the context otherwise requires, the same meaning as in section 4(2)(d) of the 1979 Act as amended by section 12(2) of the 1985 Act;\n“respective new petty sessions area” in relation to a petty sessional division means the petty sessions area comprising the outer London borough specified opposite to that division in column (2) of Schedule 2 to this Order;\n“community service order” means an order under section 14 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973;\n“probation order” means a probation order made, or having effect as if made, under section 2 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973;\n“supervision order” means any of the following orders, that is to say—\n(a) a supervision order within the meaning of section 11 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969;\n(b) an order under section 2(1)(f) of the Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates' Courts) Act 1960 or section 9 of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978;\n(c) an order under section 2(2)(a) of the Guardianship Act 1973;\n(d) a supervision order within the meaning of section 26 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973;\n(e) an order under section 17(1)(a) or section 36(3)(b) of the Children Act 1975.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "section 2 was repealed by section 89 and Schedule 3 to the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22), but orders made under section 2 are saved by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "section 2(2) was amended by section 38(2) of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "section 17 was amended by section 72(1) of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/399/article/10",
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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."
}