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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1992/rule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1992/rule-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2071",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-children-and-young-persons-rules-1992",
  "path": "rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules—\n“the Act of 1933” means the Children and Young Persons Act 1933;\n“the Act of 1969” means the Children and Young Persons Act 1969;\n“the Act of 1989” means the Children Act 1989;\n“the Act of 2000” means the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000;\n“child” means a person under the age of fourteen;\n“court”—\n(a)in Parts II and IV and, subject to rule 13(2), in Part III, means a youth court, and\n(b)in rules 26 to 29, means a magistrates' court whether a youth court or not;\n“court computer system” means a computer or computer system which is used to assist to discharge and record the business of the court.\n“guardian” has the meaning given in section 107(1) of the Act of 1933;\n“register” means the separate register kept for the youth court pursuant to rule 25 of these Rules; and\n“young person” means a person who has attained the age of fourteen and is under the age of eighteen.\n(2) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires, references to a parent in relation to a child or young person are references—\n(a) where a local authority has parental responsibility for him under the Act of 1989, to the local authority, and\n(b) in any other case, to a parent who has parental responsibility for him under that Act.\n(3) 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": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 2(1) inserted (20.6.2003) by The Magistrates' Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1236), rules 1, 65(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 2(1) inserted (20.6.2003) by The Magistrates' Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1236), rules 1, 65(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 2 in force at 1.10.1992, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1933 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1969 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2071/rule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:16:50.472181+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."
}