{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988/article-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1988/article-36.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/36",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Notice of complaint and restrictions on adjudicating justice.",
  "text": "(1) A parent or guardian who applies by complaint to a juvenile court under section 3 of the Act of 1963 after the failure or refusal of the local authority to bring a person before the court, shall send a notice specifying the time and place fixed for the hearing of the complaint to any other person who, being a parent of that child or young person, lives apart from the applicant and if any such person appears at the hearing he shall be entitled to be heard.\n(2) A justice who sits as a member of a juvenile court which hears such a complaint as aforesaid shall not sit as a member of the court before which that child or young person appears or is brought as a result of an order directed to the local authority in respect of him under the said section 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1991",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) Rules 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/913/article/36",
    "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."
}