Section 43 Qualifications for appointment as justices’ clerk.
England and Wales
No person shall be appointed as justices’ clerk unless either—
(a)
at the time of appointment—
(i)
he has a 5 year magistrates’ courts qualification (within the meaning of section 71 of the M1Courts and Legal Services Act 1990); or
(ii)
he is a barrister or solicitor and has served for not less than five years as assistant to a justices’ clerk; or
(b)
he then is or has previously been a justices’ clerk.
Annotations
Marginal citations
- M1
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Act repealed (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 6(4), 109(3), 110(1), Sch. 10; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(aa) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2005/911)