{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-constitution-amendment-rules-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-constitution-amendment-rules-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/577",
  "legislation_title": "The Youth Courts (Constitution) (Amendment) Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-constitution-amendment-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For rule 1(4) of the Youth Courts (Constitution) Rules 1954 there shall be substituted the following—\n“(4) If the justices for a petty sessions area consider that a sufficient number of persons cannot otherwise be appointed to the panel, they may appoint a justice for the commission area which includes that petty sessions area, who is specially qualified as aforesaid, notwithstanding that he is not a justice for that petty sessions area.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1954/1711; relevant amendments are made by S.I. 1991/2099 and section 70 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/577/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:50:13.637425+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."
}