# Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015, Paragraph 2


A person who, immediately before section 4 comes into operation, was a lay magistrate for a county court division shall be treated as having been appointed under section 4 as a lay magistrate for the administrative court division which—
(a) is specified in the first directions given under section 2 as an administrative court division for all or the residual purposes of a magistrates' court; and
(b) contains the whole or the largest part of the county court division for which the lay justice was appointed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/schedule/8/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-8/paragraph-2
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