Explanatory Notes

Courts Act 2003

2003 CHAPTER 39

20 November 2003

Commentary on Sections: Part 2

Application of receipts of magistrates’ courts etc.

Section 38: Application of receipts of designated officersSection 39: Limits to requirements about application of receiptsSection40: Regulations about payments, accounting and banking by designated officers

90.Sections 38 and 39 make similar provision to section 60 of the JPA 1997, amended to reflect the fact that the post of JCE will cease to exist. The sections instead make reference to sums received by a designated officer. Section 40 contains provisions similar to section 60A of the JPA and will allow the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Treasury, to make regulations about the payment, accounting for and banking of money paid to designated officers in the magistrates’ courts.