Article 10 Election meeting
The justices for each petty sessions area shall hold an election meeting in October every year.
At the election meeting—
the justices' chief executive shall announce the result of any election conducted by postal ballot where the result has been determined before the meeting;
where rule 6(9) applies, the justices' chief executive (assisted if need be by staff of the magistrates' courts committee whose area consists of or includes the petty sessions area) shall determine the result of the postal ballot for the election to the office of deputy chairman and shall announce the name of the justice or justices who has or have been elected to that office;
the justices' chief executive shall announce the number of first choice votes each justice received at each stage of the count of the votes cast in the postal ballot; and
the justices shall decide the number of deputy chairmen to be elected to take office in the year commencing on 1st January after the next election meeting.
Where a chairman and one or more deputy chairmen are elected at the election meeting, the result of the election to the office of chairman shall be announced before the election to the office of deputy chairman.