Section 27 Conditions of service and staff of justices’ clerks.

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A magistrates’ courts committee may employ staff on such terms as they think fit.

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The power conferred by F3section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 to make rules for regulating and prescribing the procedure and practice to be followed by justices’ clerks shall, without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of that section, include power to provide that, subject to any exceptions prescribed by the rules, persons shall not be employed to assist a justices’ clerk in any capacity so prescribed, or shall not be permitted to do on behalf of a justices’ clerk any such acts as may be so prescribed, unless those persons are qualified (any age limits apart) to be appointed justices’ clerk or have such other qualifications as may for any purpose be allowed by the rules F4or approved by the Lord Chancellor in accordance with the rules.

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