Justices of the Peace Act 1979

5 (1) The supplemental list for England and Wales kept under the Act of 1973, as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall have effect as the supplemental list required to be kept under section 8 of this Act; and any name which immediately before the commencement of this Act was treated as included in the list by virtue of section 20(4) of the Act of 1973 (which related to justices whose names were entered in a supplemental list immediately before the 1st April 1974) shall continue to be treated as so included until removed from the list in accordance with section 9 of this Act.

(2) Any person whose name immediately before the commencement of this Act was omitted from the supplemental list by virtue of the proviso to paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1973 (which made provision corresponding to section 8(3) of this Act) shall have his name entered in the supplemental list on the expiry or sooner determination of the term of office by reason of which his name was omitted from the list.