Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015

Part 1: Lay magistrates

2.  A person who, immediately before section 4 comes into operation, was a lay magistrate for a county court division shall be treated as having been appointed under section 4 as a lay magistrate for the administrative court division which—

(a)is specified in the first directions given under section 2 as an administrative court division for all or the residual purposes of a magistrates’ court; and

(b)contains the whole or the largest part of the county court division for which the lay justice was appointed.