SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8Minor and consequential amendments

259Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54)

1

Amend section 8 (the Crown Court) as follows.

2

For subsection (2), substitute—

2

A justice of the peace is not disqualified from acting as a judge of the Crown Court merely because the proceedings are not at a place within the local justice area to which he is assigned or because the proceedings are not related to that area in any other way.

3

In subsection (3), for “or any Circuit judge or Recorder” substitute “, Circuit judge, Recorder or District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”.