The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) (Amendment) Regulations 2003
S.I. 2003/2252 · Made 28 August 2003
MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made 28th August 2003
Laid before Parliament 2nd September 2003
Coming into force 1st October 2003
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 29 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997f1, makes the following Regulations:
Annotations to the whole text
Footnotes
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1997 c. 25. Section 29 was substituted by section 82 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).
Contents
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st October 2003.
2
In regulation 8 of the Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) Regulations 1999f1—
in paragraph (1) omit “, subject to paragraph (2),”; and
omit paragraphs (2) to (4).
Signature
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Christopher Leslie
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Constitutional Affairs
28th August 2003
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2395) by omitting regulations 8(2) to (4). By regulation 8(1), as amended, a member of a magistrates' courts committee is appointed to serve for 3 years and shall be eligible for reappointment for similar terms indefinitely. The omission of regulation 8(3) means that a justice is no longer prevented from being appointed to the committee if his name is due to be entered on the supplemental list before the expiry of the 3 year term, and he may be appointed and continue to be a member of the committee until the end of his term.