{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-divisions-and-names-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-divisions-and-names-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1698",
  "legislation_title": "The Petty Sessions Areas (Divisions and Names) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-divisions-and-names-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“committee” means a magistrates' courts committee established under section 19 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 acting for a non-metropolitan county, a metropolitan district or an outer London borough;\n“the Act” means the Justices of the Peace Act 1979;\n“the area” means the area to which a draft order or a report under section 23 of the Act, or a draft order under section 24A of the Act, relates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 24A and 24B were inserted by section 164 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1698/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:17.013527+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."
}