PART II

FUNCTIONS OF RESIDENT MAGISTRATES AND JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

Functions of resident magistrates and justices of the peace other than resident magistrates

Functions of resident magistrates and justices of the peace other than resident magistrates
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1
A resident magistrate sitting alone may, as well as exercising any function which is conferred by any enactment upon a resident magistrate or upon a lay magistrate, exercise any function which under any enactment may be exercised by—
a
two or more lay magistrates; or
b
two or more resident magistrates.
2
A lay magistrate may not sit in petty sessions and may exercise only such functions as are conferred upon a lay magistrate under—
a
any enactment (including this Order) commencing on or after 1st January 1936; or
b
any enactment commencing before that day included in Part I of Schedule 1.
2002 c. 26