{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-1999/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-1999/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2814",
  "legislation_title": "The Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) (Amendment) Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) Rules 1979",
  "text": "The following new Rule shall be inserted after rule 4:—\n“4A (1) An assistant who is not qualified for the purposes of rule 3 above may be employed as a clerk in court if:—\n(a) he holds a valid training certificate granted by a magistrates' courts committee before 1st January 1999; or\n(b) his employment as an assistant is registered by the Law Society as a training contract under regulation 23 of the Training Regulations 1990.\n(2) In this rule “training certificate” has the meaning assigned by rule 2(1) of these Rules as they stood immediately before 1st January 1999, and the validity and duration of a training certificate granted before that date shall be determined as if rule 5(2) of and Schedule 3 to these Rules had continued in force.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Made by the Council of the Law Society under section 2 of the Solicitors Act 1974 (c. 47) with the approval of the Lord Chancellor and each of the designated judges."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Rule 5 was replaced and Schedule 3 was revoked by S.I. 1998/3107 with effect from 1st January 1999."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2814/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:43:47.524230+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}