The Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

2.  In the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989(1)—

(a) in regulation 3(1) for the definition of “justices' clerk” there shall be substituted the following definition—

• ““justices' chief executive” includes a person duly authorised by the justices' chief executive for a magistrates' court to act on his behalf to the extent that he is so authorised”,

and in the definition of “proper officer” for the words “justices' clerk”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “justices' chief executive for the court”;

(b) in regulations 11 to 21, 40, 42, 51(4) and 61(1) for the words “justices' clerk”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “justices' chief executive”; and

(c) in Form 2 in Schedule 2 for the words “Justices' Clerk”, and in Forms 3, 6, 7 and 8 in that schedule for the words “Clerk to the Justices”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “Justices' Chief Executive”.

(1)

S.I. 1989/344; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1993/789, S.I. 1993/1895, S.I. 1995/542, S.I. 1998/662, S.I. 1998/2909, S.I. 1999/815 and S.I. 2000/431.