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The Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) (Amendment) Rules 1998
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- 1998 No. 3107 (L. 18)
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These Rules amend the Justices' Clerks (Qualification of Assistants) Rules 1979 so as to provide that, on or after 1st January 1999, a justices' clerks' assistant may only be appointed as a court clerk if he or she
(a)is a barrister or solicitor, or
(b)has passed all the necessary examinations to become a barrister or solicitor.
A court clerk employed on 31st December 1998 who has not attained the age of 40 may only continue to assist a justices' clerk by acting in his place as a clerk in court after 31st December 2008 if he holds one of these qualifications. These Rules also abolish the system of training certificates.
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