Section 17 Disability to act as justice of the peace.C1
England and Wales
A person shall not, while he is sheriff of a county, act as a justice of the F1peace in any local justice area consisting of or including the whole or a part of that county, and if he does so act, all his acts done as such justice of the peace shall be void.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in s. 17 substituted (1.4.2005) for words by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 59; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)
Modifications
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S. 17 modified by Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c. 42), s. 19(4)