Explanatory note

These Rules amend the Youth Courts (Constitution) Rules 1954. Rule 3 inserts a new paragraph into rule 1 of the 1954 Rules. It provides for the temporary transfer of justices between youth court panels within the same commission area, or to a panel in another commission area where the Lord Chancellor has first appointed the justice to that commission area. Rule 4 inserts a new paragraph into rule 13 of the 1954 Rules. It enables a justice transferred under new rule 1(5) who is already able to act as chairman of a youth court in his own petty sessions area to act as chairman of a youth court in the petty sessions area to whose panel he is temporarily transferred.

These provisions supplement that contained in rule 1(4) of the 1954 Rules which enables a permanent appointment to the youth court panel for one petty sessions area of an appropriately qualified justice from another petty sessions area, where the justice is from within the same commission area.