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Article 3 Functions of resident magistrates and justices of the peace other than resident magistrates

(1)

A resident magistrate sitting alone may, as well as exercising any function which is conferred by any enactment upon a resident magistrate or upon aF1 lay magistrate, exercise any function which under any enactment may be exercised by—

(a)

two or more lay magistrates; or

(b)

two or more resident magistrates.

(2)

A lay magistrate may not sit in petty sessions and may exercise only such functions as are conferred upon a lay magistrate under—

(a)

any enactment (including this Order) commencing on or after 1st January 1936; or

(b)

any enactment commencing before that day included in Part I of Schedule 1.

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Textual amendments

F1

2002 c. 26