Article 3
The Youth Courts (Constitution) Rules 1954f1 shall be amended by—
the deletion of rule 2;
the substitution in paragraph (1) of rule 9 for the word “person” of the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) or a justice”;
the deletion in rule 11 of the words “from the panel”;
the substitution, in paragraph (1)(a) of rule 12 for the words “stipendiary magistrate” of the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”;
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.”;
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
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
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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.