{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1979-repealed-1961997/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1979-repealed-1961997/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/55",
  "legislation_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (repealed 19.6.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1979-repealed-1961997",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Qualifications for appointment as justices’ clerk.",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided by this section, no person shall be appointed as justices’ clerk . . . unless either—\n(a) at the time of appointment he has a 5 year magistrates’ court qualification, within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990,. . ., or\n(b) he then is or has previously been a justices’ clerk.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) A person not having the qualification which is required by subsection (1)(a) above may be appointed as justices’ clerk if at the time of the appointment he is a barrister or solicitor and has served for not less than five years as assistant to a justices’ clerk.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(1) repealed (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 29, ss. 91, 93, Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 10(2), Sch. 9 Pt.II; S.I. 1995/685, arts. 7(1)(b),8(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c.41, SIF 37), s. 71(2), Sch. 10 para. 45"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 26(2)(4)(5) repealed (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 29, ss. 91, 93, Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 10(4), Sch. 9 Pt.II; S.I. 1995/685, arts. 7(1)(b),8(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 26(3) substituted (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 29, s. 91, Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 10(3); S.I. 1995/685, art.7(l)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/55/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:01.284091+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."
}