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Article 3

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The Youth Courts (Constitution) Rules 1954f1 shall be amended by—

(a)

the deletion of rule 2;

(b)

the substitution in paragraph (1) of rule 9 for the word “person” of the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) or a justice”;

(c)

the deletion in rule 11 of the words “from the panel”;

(d)

the substitution, in paragraph (1)(a) of rule 12 for the words “stipendiary magistrate” of the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”;

(e)

the substitution for paragraph (1) of rule 13 of the following paragraph:

“(1)

Except as provided in paragraphs (1A) and (2) of this Rule, each youth court, other than one consisting of a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) sitting alone, shall sit under the chairmanship of a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts), if a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) is sitting as a member of the court or, otherwise, the chairman or a deputy chairman elected under Rule 9 of these Rules.”;

(f)

the substitution in paragraph (1A) of rule 13 for the words “the chairman or a deputy chairman” of the words “a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) or the chairman or a deputy chairman” and the insertion, in that paragraph, after the words “provided that”, of the words “a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts),”; and

(g)

the substitution in paragraph (2) of rule 13 for the words “the chairman or a deputy chairman” of the words “a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) or the chairman or a deputy chairman”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1954/1711, amended by S.I. 1979/952, 1983/675, 1991/2099, 1996/577, 1996/3068 and 1998/2167. Section 70(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53) provides that juvenile courts shall be renamed youth courts in any enactment or instrument.