Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed)
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47 Person acting as substitute clerk to justices.
(1) Subject to any rules made under section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, where a person who is not the justices’ clerk (or one of the justices’ clerks) for a petty sessions area acts as clerk to the justices for that petty sessions area— (a) he shall be treated as acting as deputy to the justices’ clerk; and (b) he shall make a return to the justices’ clerk of— (i) all matters done before the justices; and (ii) all matters that the clerk to the justices is required to register or record. (2) Where there are two or more justices’ clerks for the petty sessions area, any reference in subsection (1) above to the justices’ clerk is a reference to such one of them as may be designated for the purpose by the magistrates’ courts committee.
47 Person acting as substitute clerk to justices.
(1) Subject to any rules made under section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, where a person who is not the justices’ clerk (or one of the justices’ clerks) for a petty sessions area acts as clerk to the justices for that petty sessions area— (a) he shall be treated as acting as deputy to the justices’ clerk; and (b) he shall make a return to the justices’ clerk of— (i) all matters done before the justices; and (ii) all matters that the clerk to the justices is required to register or record. (2) Where there are two or more justices’ clerks for the petty sessions area, any reference in subsection (1) above to the justices’ clerk is a reference to such one of them as may be designated for the purpose by the magistrates’ courts committee.
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