{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-probation-boards-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2001/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-probation-boards-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2001/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/786",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Probation Boards (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-probation-boards-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Meetings of local probation boards",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provision of these Regulations, a local probation board may establish its own procedures and the procedures of its committees and sub-committees.\n(2) The quorum of a local probation board shall not be less than 7.\n(3) A local probation board shall meet at least four times a year and, so far as practicable, shall meet at least ten times a year.\n(4) A local probation board shall meet in public, except where the board resolves to meet in private in accordance with a scheme that has been approved by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/2664",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Probation Boards (Appointment and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/786/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:58:39.236393+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."
}