Criminal Justice Act 1972

Group BOthers concerned with administration of justice

  • Barristers and solicitors, whether or not in actual practice as such.

  • Solicitors' articled clerks.

  • Barristers' clerks and their assistants.

  • Legal executives in the employment of solicitors.

  • The Director of Public Prosecutions and members of his staff.

  • Officers employed under the Lord Chancellor and concerned wholly or mainly with the day-to-day administration of the legal system or any part of it.

  • Officers and staff of any court, if their work is wholly or mainly concerned with the day-to-day administration of the court.

  • Coroners, deputy coroners and assistant coroners.

  • Justices' clerks and their assistants.

  • Clerks and other officers appointed under section 15 of the [1964 c. 42.] Administration of Justice Act 1964 (Inner London magistrates courts administration).

  • Active Elder Brethren of the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond.

  • A shorthandwriter in any court.

  • Governors, chaplains, medical officers and other officers of penal establishments ; members of boards of visitors for penal establishments.

  • (" Penal establishment " for this purpose means any prison, remand centre, detention centre or borstal institution.)

  • The warden or a member of the staff of a probation home, probation hostel or bail hostel (as defined in section 53 of this Act).

  • Probation officers and persons appointed to assist them.

  • Members of the Parole Board ; members of local review committees established under the [1967 c. 80.] Criminal Justice Act 1967.

  • A member of any police force (including a person on central service under section 43 of the [1964 c. 48.] Police Act 1964); special constables; a member of any constabulary maintained under statute; a person employed in any capacity by virtue of which he has the powers and privileges of a constable.

  • A member of a police authority within the meaning of the Police Act 1964 ; a member of any body (corporate or other) with responsibility for appointing members of a constabulary maintained under statute.

  • Inspectors of Constabulary appointed by Her Majesty ; assistant inspectors of constabulary appointed by the Secretary of State.

  • Civilians employed for police purposes by a police authority ; members of the metropolitan civil staffs within the meaning of section 15 of the [1967 c. 28.] Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967 (persons employed under the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Inner London justices' clerks, etc.).

  • A person in charge of, or employed in, any forensic science laboratory.

  • A person who at any time within the last ten years has been a person falling within any description specified above in this Group.