# The Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) (Amendment) Rules 2001, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Rules)
These Rules amend the Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) Rules 1979 so as to:
(a) remove the requirement that to be employed as a clerk in court after 31st December 2008, a court clerk employed on 31st December 1998, who had not attained the age of 40 at that date, must qualify as a barrister or solicitor or pass all the examinations for one of those professions; and
(b) provide that a person employed as a clerk in court before 1st January 1999 who is not qualified under rule 4(1)(a) (that is to say, as a solicitor or barrister, or by having passed all the examinations for one of those professions) may accept further contracts of employment as a clerk in court, regardless of any interval between successive contracts.
The Rules also make minor drafting amendments.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2269/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/justices-clerks-qualifications-of-assistants-amendment-rules-2001/note
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