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Title and introductory text
Justices of the Peace Act 1968
1968 c.69
An Act to make further provision for confining the office of justice of the peace to persons selected for it, and terminating the appointment of stipendiary magistrates under local Acts, and for matters arising thereout, and to forward in other respects the proper discharge of the functions of justices by amending the law as to age limits, payment of allowances, powers and qualifications of justices’ clerks and their assistants and other matters; and for purposes connected therewith.
[25th October 1968]
Propose a change1 Appointment of justices, oaths of office, etc.
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(2), (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4)—(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(7) It is hereby declared that any court of record having a criminal jurisdiction has, as ancillary to that jurisdiction, the power to bind over to keep the peace, and power to bind over to be of good behaviour, a person who or whose case is before the court, by requiring him to enter into his own recognisances or to find sureties or both, and committing him to prison if he does not comply . . .
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(5), (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; but otherwise the foregoing sections of this Act shall not extend to Scotland.
(2), (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Propose a change7 Commencement, and power to provide for transitional matters.
(1) The provisions of section 1 of this Act and Schedules 1 to 3 shall not come into force until such day as Her Majesty may by Order in Council appoint, and a different day may be appointed for different provisions or for different purposes of the same provision.
(2) An Order in Council under subsection (1) above may include such provision as appears to Her Majesty to be expedient for supplementing, as regards transitional matters, the provisions of this Act . . . and any provision included in an Order in Council by virtue of this subsection may be varied or revoked by a further Order in Council.
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(4) The provisions of section 4 of this Act shall not come into force until such day as the Secretary of State may by order (to be made by statutory instrument) appoint, and a different day may be appointed for Scotland from the day appointed for England and Wales.
(5) Any statutory instrument containing an Order in Council or order under this section shall be laid before Parliament after being made.
Propose a change8 Supplementary.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Justices of the Peace Act 1968.
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(3) This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland, . . .
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Propose a changeSCHEDULE 3 Supplementary Provisions as to City of London and Local Act Stipendiaries
Sections 1 and 7.
Part I Principal Provisions as to City of London
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2, 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 (1)—(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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5 In the City of London Police Act 1839 for the definition of “justice” in section 2 (by which the word is defined to mean the Lord Mayor or any alderman or the recorder of the City) there shall be substituted— “justice” means a justice of the peace for the City of London ”.
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Part II
11—14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Part III
15, 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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