# The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, 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 a 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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1675/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-3
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