{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-northern-ireland-1964/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-northern-ireland-1964/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1964/21",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-northern-ireland-1964",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Appointment and assignment of resident magistrates.",
  "text": "(1) Her Majesty may. . . appoint fit and proper persons to be resident magistrates, being persons who at the dates of their appointments are—\n(a) members of the Bar of Northern Ireland of at least seven years' standing; or\n(b) solicitors of theCourt of Judicature of at least seven years' standing.\nSubs. (2) rep. by 2002 c. 26\n(3) A resident magistrate shall sit in accordance with directions given by theLord Chief Justice.\n(4) A resident magistrate may, in accordance with such directions, sit in any magistrates' court .\n(5) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), theLord Chief Justice may assign a resident magistrate to one or more divisions and may from time to time vary any such assignment.]\n(6) In subsection (5) “division” means an administrative court division specified under section2 of the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 for all or the residual purposes of a magistrates' court.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1978 c.23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(1) omitted (12.4.2010) by virtue of Northern Ireland Act 2009 (c. 3), ss. 2(4), 5(7)(a), Sch. 5 para. 3; S.I. 2010/812, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "2002 c. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(1)(b) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59(5), 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 6(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(3)(5) substituted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15(2), 148(1), Sch. 5 para.16; S.I. 2006/1014, art.2(a), Sch. 1 para. 12(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(4) substituted (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 57(2)(a) (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(5) substituted (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 57(2)(b) (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 9(6) added (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 57(2)(c) (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1964/21/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:47.517651+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}