# Courts Act 2003, Paragraph 259

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/schedule/8/paragraph/259 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-259
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