http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/55

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/55/section/38

Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (repealed 19.6.1997)

An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to justices of the peace (including stipendiary magistrates), justices’ clerks and the administrative and financial arrangements for magistrates’ courts, and to matters connected therewith, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission.