Access to Justice Act 1999

District Judges (Magistrates' Courts): legal aid

26If paragraph 36 of Schedule 11 to this Act comes into force before the repeal by this Act of section 19(5) of the [1988 c. 34.] Legal Aid Act 1988, that provision shall have effect as if, in the definition of “proceedings for dealing with an offender as a fugitive offender”, the reference to a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate were to a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts).