SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11 U.K. Unification and renaming of stipendiary bench

The Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c.43) U.K.

27 U.K.For section 66 substitute—

“66 Composition of magistrates’ courts for family proceedings: general.

(1) A magistrates’ court when hearing family proceedings shall be composed of—

(a) two or three lay justices; or

(b) a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) as chairman and one or two lay justices;

or, if it is not practicable for such a court to be so composed, a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) sitting alone.

(2) Except where such a court is composed of a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) sitting alone, it shall, so far as practicable, include both a man and a woman.

(3) In this section and section 67 below “lay justices” means justices of the peace who are not District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts).”