Administration of Justice Act 1964

33Chairmanship of bench of magistrates

A person who, under the Local Government Act 1933, is a justice of the peace for any area by virtue of his office as mayor of a borough or chairman of the council of a county or county district or of the Greater London Council shall not, by reason only of his being a justice of the peace by virtue of that office, be qualified to be chosen under section 13(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949 as chairman or deputy chairman of the justices for that area (or any petty sessional division of that area) or to vote under that subsection at the election of any such chairman or deputy chairman.