{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-constitution-of-committees-and-right-to-preside-rules-2007/rule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-constitution-of-committees-and-right-to-preside-rules-2007/rule-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1611",
  "legislation_title": "The Youth Courts (Constitution of Committees and Right to Preside) Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-courts-constitution-of-committees-and-right-to-preside-rules-2007",
  "path": "rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the 2007 Rules” means the Justices of the Peace (Training Development and Committee) Rules 2007;\n“BTDC” means the Bench Training and Development Committee established in accordance with the 2007 Rules;\n“ILYTDC” means the Inner London Youth Training and Development Committee established in accordance with the 2007 Rules;\n“Inner London area” means the local justice areas covering the London Boroughs listed in Part 2 of Schedule I to the 2007 Rules;\n“justice” means a lay justice and, in relation to a local justice area, means a justice assigned to that area;\n“justices’ clerk”, in relation to a local justice area, means a justices’ clerk assigned to that area and includes any person acting as such;\n“outgoing panel” means—\n(a) in relation to the Inner London area, the youth panel for the metropolitan area established in accordance with Schedule 2 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933; and\n(b) in any other case, the youth panel formed for a local justice area in accordance with the Youth Courts (Constitution) Rules 1954;\n“youth election meeting” means the meeting held by the youth panel between 1st September and 30th November each year in accordance with rule 4; and\n“youth justice” means a justice authorised to sit as a member of a youth court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/1609."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1933 c.12; Schedule 2 was revoked by the Courts Act 2003, Schedule 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "SI 1954/1711; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2005/617."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2016/709",
      "affecting_title": "The Justices of the Peace Rules 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1611/rule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:34:33.176379+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."
}