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Article 3 Qualifications for nomination as court chairman

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(1)

The Lord Chancellor may, on a recommendation made in accordance with this Order, nominate as a court chairman any justice who–

(a)

has undergone the chairmanship course provided by the Inner London Magistrates' Courts Service;

(b)

has served for at least six years as a justice of the peace, including at least five years in a juvenile court (not necessarily in inner London);

(c)

has thereafter successfully completed a special course; and

(d)

has thereafter sat as a chairman under training on at least six occasions and for a total of not less than twenty hours, on each occasion with and at the request of a court chairman (who should not always be the same one) approved for this purpose by the Chairman of the Panel.