# The Youth Courts and Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution) (Amendment) Rules 2000, Article 3


The Youth Courts (Constitution) Rules 1954 shall be amended by—
(a) the deletion of rule 2;
(b) the substitution in paragraph (1) of rule 9 for the word “person” of the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) or a justice”;
(c) the deletion in rule 11 of the words “from the panel”;
(d) the substitution, in paragraph (1)(a) of rule 12 for the words “stipendiary magistrate” of the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”;
(e) the substitution for paragraph (1) of rule 13 of the following paragraph:
“(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.”;
(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
(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”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1873/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-and-family-proceedings-courts-constitution-amendment-rules-2000/article-3
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