Regulation 8 Eligibility for and duration of membership

(1)

Subject to regulations 3, 9, 12 and 14, a member of the committee shall be appointed to serve for three years from 1st April after his appointment and shall, subject to paragraph (2), be eligible for reappointment.

(2)

Subject to section 20(3) of the Act^f1, a justice may not serve as a member of the committee for more than a total of nine years.

(3)

No justice shall be eligible for appointment to the committee if his name will be entered in the supplemental list before the expiry of the period for which he is appointed.

(4)

Any period served on the committee of magistrates^f2 for the inner London area before 1st April 1995, and on any committee (other than that for the inner London area) before 1st April 1996, shall not count towards the maximum period of service permitted by this regulation.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 20 was substituted by section 70 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29).
f2: Section 79 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29) came into force on 1st November 1994 for the purpose only of enabling a magistrates' courts committee for the inner London area to be constituted in accordance with these Regulations. Section 79 will supersede section 35 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55) under which a committee of magistrates is constituted for the inner London area.