The Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) (Amendment) Rules 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) Rules 1979 so as to provide that:

(a) an assistant who held a training certificate on 1st January 1999 may continue to act as a clerk in court for the duration of the course to which the certificate relates;

(b) an assistant whose employment is registered with the Law Society as a training contract may act as a clerk in court;

(c) a person employed as a clerk in court before 1st January 1999 who is not qualified under rule 4(1)(a) (that is to say, as a solicitor or a barrister, or by having passed all the examinations for one of those professions) may accept further contracts of employment as a clerk in court after that date, provided that the interval between two successive contracts does not exceed three months.

This last provision does not enable a person to act as a clerk in court after 31st December 2008 who could not otherwise have done so.