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Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (repealed 19.6.1997)
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F156 Provisions supplementary to s. 55.E+W
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section—
(a)the petty sessional court-houses and other accommodation, goods and services to be provided by the paying authority, or each of the paying authorities, under section 55 of this Act,
(b)the salary to be paid to a justices’ clerk or justices’ chief executive and to staff of a magistrates’ courts committee, and
(c)the nature and amount of the expenses which a magistrates’ courts committee may incur in the discharge of any functions or may authorise to be incurred,
shall be such as may from time to time be determined by the magistrates’ courts committee after consultation with the paying authority or authorities.
(2)Where the expenses of a magistrates’ courts committee (including any sums which are taken by section 55(6) of this Act to be such expenses) fall to be borne by more than one paying authority, any question as to the manner in which they are to be borne by the authorities concerned shall be determined by agreement between those authorities and the magistrates’ courts committee concerned or, in default of such agreement, shall be determined by the Lord Chancellor.
(3)Any paying authority which is aggrieved by a determination of a magistrates’ courts committee under subsection (1) above may, within one month from the receipt by the authority of written notice of the determination, appeal to the Lord Chancellor, whose decision shall be binding upon the magistrates’ courts committee and any authority concerned.
(4)The approval of the Lord Chancellor shall be required for any determination under subsection (1) above reducing the salary of a justices’ clerk or justices’ chief executive, unless the justices’ clerk or justices’ chief executive concerned consents to the reduction.
(5)In this section “paying authority” has the same meaning as in section 55 of this Act.
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F1Ss. 55, 56 substituted (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 29, s. 83(1); S.I. 1995/685, art.4(h)
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