{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-magistrates-courts-etc-order-1986/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-magistrates-courts-etc-order-1986/article-14.json",
  "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/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Community service orders, probation orders and supervision orders",
  "text": "(1) Where a petty sessional division is named in a community service order, probation order or supervision order, the powers and functions of the justices for that division in relation to the order shall on 1st April 1986 vest in the justices for the respective new petty sessions area who shall from that date discharge those powers and functions and the order, unless amended in regard to the area named, shall from that date have effect in all respects as if the respective new petty sessions area were named therein.\n(2) Where in consequence of paragraph (1) above, the powers and functions of the justices in relation to a community service order, probation order or supervision order vest in the justices for the respective new petty sessions area and the offender, probationer or person under supervision continues to reside in an area which formed part of the petty sessional division but which does not form a part of that petty sessions area, the justices for that petty sessions area may amend the order in regard to the petty sessions area named as if the offender, probationer or person under supervision, as the case may be, had changed his residence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/399/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:52:58.135493+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."
}