{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-and-family-proceedings-courts-constitution-amendment-rules-2000/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-and-family-proceedings-courts-constitution-amendment-rules-2000/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1873",
  "legislation_title": "The Youth Courts and Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution) (Amendment) Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-and-family-proceedings-courts-constitution-amendment-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Youth Courts (Constitution) Rules 1954 shall be amended by—\n(a) the deletion of rule 2;\n(b) the substitution in paragraph (1) of rule 9 for the word “person” of the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) or a justice”;\n(c) the deletion in rule 11 of the words “from the panel”;\n(d) the substitution, in paragraph (1)(a) of rule 12 for the words “stipendiary magistrate” of the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”;\n(e) the substitution for paragraph (1) of rule 13 of the following paragraph:\n“(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (1A) and (2) of this Rule, each youth court, other than one consisting of a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) sitting alone, shall sit under the chairmanship of a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts), if a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) is sitting as a member of the court or, otherwise, the chairman or a deputy chairman elected under Rule 9 of these Rules.”;\n(f) the substitution in paragraph (1A) of rule 13 for the words “the chairman or a deputy chairman” of the words “a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) or the chairman or a deputy chairman” and the insertion, in that paragraph, after the words “provided that”, of the words “a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts),”; and\n(g) the substitution in paragraph (2) of rule 13 for the words “the chairman or a deputy chairman” of the words “a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) or the chairman or a deputy chairman”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1954/1711, amended by S.I. 1979/952, 1983/675, 1991/2099, 1996/577, 1996/3068 and 1998/2167. Section 70(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53) provides that juvenile courts shall be renamed youth courts in any enactment or instrument."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1873/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:08.661970+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."
}