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.