Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8 Magistrates' courts: minor and consequential amendments

Part I Amendments of [1979 c. 55.] Justices of the Peace Act 1979

2 (1) Section 17 (chairman and deputy chairmen of justices) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), after the words “for the area” there shall be inserted the words “; and any contested election for the purposes of this section shall be held”.

(3) In subsection (2), for the words “subsection (3)” there shall be substituted the words “subsections (2A) and (3)”.

(4) After subsection (2) there shall be inserted—

“(2A) Subsection (2) above shall not confer on any chairman or deputy chairman of the justices the right to preside in court if, under rules made under the next following section, he is ineligible to preside in court.”