Regulation 47 Magistrates' courts

Justices of the peace for a commission area within which is situated the area of a charging authority shall have jurisdiction to act under the provisions of this Part as respects that authority.

Subject to any other enactment authorising a stipendiary magistrate or other person to act by himself, a magistrates' court shall not under this Part hear a summons, entertain an application for a warrant or hold an inquiry as to means on such an application except when composed of at least two justices.

References to a justice of the peace in regulations 29(2) and 40(2) shall be construed subject to rule 3 of the Justices' Clerks Rules 1970^f1 (which authorises certain matters authorised to be done by a justice of the peace to be done by a justices' clerk).