{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/913",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to rule 29 of these Rules, in these Rules the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—\n“the Act of 1933” means the Children and Young Persons Act 1933;\n“the Act of 1963” means the Children and Young Persons Act 1963;\n“the Act of 1969” means the Children and Young Persons Act 1969;\n“the Act of 1980” means the Child Care Act 1980;\n“the Act of 1986” means the Children and Young Persons (Amendment) Act 1986;\n“child” means a person under the age of fourteen;\n“court” means a juvenile court except that in Part VII it means a magistrates' court, whether a juvenile court or not;\n“register” means the separate register kept for the juvenile court pursuant to rule 37 of these Rules;\n“young person” means a person who has attained the age of fourteen and is under the age of seventeen.\n(2) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a rule, Part or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to a rule contained in these Rules, a Part thereof or a Schedule thereto, and any reference in a rule to a paragraph shall be construed as a reference to a paragraph of that rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1933 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1963 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1969 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1980 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1986 c. 28."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1991",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1991",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1991",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/384",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Family Law Reform Act 1987) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1989"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/913/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:06:18.954433+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."
}