Section 15 Certain restrictions on magistrates’ courts not to apply to stipendiary magistrates.C1

England and Wales

(1)

Subject to subsection (2) below, nothing in the M1Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980—

(a)

requiring a magistrates’ court—

(i)

to be composed of two or more justices; or

(ii)

to sit in a petty sessional court-house or an occasional court-house; or

(b)

limiting the powers of a magistrates’ court—

(i)

when composed of a single justice; or

(ii)

when sitting elsewhere than in a petty sessional court-house,

shall apply to any stipendiary magistrate sitting in a place appointed for the purpose.

(2)

Subsection (1) above does not apply to the hearing or determination of family proceedings within the meaning of section 65 of the M2Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: 1980 c. 43.
M2: 1980 c. 43.

Modifications

C1: S. 15 amended (19.6.1997) by 1965 c. 45, Sch. para. 2 proviso (as inserted by 1997 c. 25, ss. 73(2), 74(1), Sch. 5 para.9

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 6(4), 109(3), 110(1), Sch. 10; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(aa) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2005/911)