Where a county court deals with a case on appeal from a juvenile court, the judge shall, where practicable, be assisted by two F1F2... lay magistrates, at least one of whom (where practicable) is a woman, who shall sit with him and act as assessors.

Where in any case only one suchF1 lay magistrate is available, the judge may sit with thatF1 lay magistrate; and where in any case no suchF1 lay magistrate is available and it appears to the judge that an adjournment would not be in the interests of justice, he may sit alone.

In this section—

• F3...

• “judge” has the same meaning as in the County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 M1.