Section 44 Immunity for acts within jurisdiction.F1
England and Wales
No action shall lie against any justice of the peace or justice’s clerk in respect of any act or omission of his—
(a)
in the execution of his duty—
(i)
as such a justice; or
(ii)
as such a clerk exercising, by virtue of any statutory provision, any of the functions of a single justice; and
(b)
with respect to any matter within his jurisdiction.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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S. 44 substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c.41, SIF 76:1, 82), ss. 108(2), 125(6), Sch. 19 para. 16
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed (19.6.1997) by 1997 c. 25, ss. 73(3), 74(1), Sch. 6 Pt.I (with savings in Sch. 4 Pt. II paras. 6(a), 23, 28 and saving (temp.) for ss. 58 and 70 of the repealed Act in Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 7(2)(a)