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

3 In section 18 (rules as to chairmanship and size of bench) in subsection (2)—

(a) in paragraph (b), after the words “petty sessions area” there shall be inserted the words “(including any procedure for nominating candidates at any such election)”, and

(b) for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted—

“(c) as to courses of instruction to be completed by justices before they may preside in court;

(d) as to the approval of justices, by committees of justices constituted in accordance with the rules, before they may preside in court, as to the justices who may be so approved and as to the courts to which the approval relates; and

(e) as to circumstances in which a justice may preside in court even though requirements imposed by virtue of paragraph (c) or (d) above are not satisfied in relation to him.”