PART IIEngland and Wales
Magistrates' courts
21Persons to preside at meetings of justices
1
The following subsection shall be substituted for section 13(3) of the [1949 c. 101.] Justices of the Peace Act 1949 (under which the chairman or a deputy chairman of the justices for a petty sessions area must preside at any meeting of the justices, if present):—
3
Subject to the next following subsection, if the chairman or a deputy chairman of the justices for a petty sessions area is present at a meeting of those justices, he shall preside unless he requests another justice to preside in accordance with rules made under this section.
2
At the end of subsection (5) (power to make rules) of the said section 13 there shall be added the words
and
c
as to the justices whom a chairman or deputy chairman of justices may request to preside at a meeting.