http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/body/1991-02-01Courts Act 1971An Act to make further provision as respects the Senior Courts and county courts, judges and juries, to establish a Crown Court as part of the Senior Courts to try indictments and exercise certain other jurisdiction, to abolish courts of assize and certain other courts and to deal with their jurisdiction and other consequential matters, and to amend in other respects the law about courts and court proceedings.1978-06-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2023-05-121991-02-01 Part I Introductory The Supreme Court.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Location of sittings and business of High Court.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abolition of courts of quarter sessions.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Part II The Crown Court Establishment of the Crown Court.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Justices as judges of Crown Court.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trial on indictment Exclusive jurisdiction in trial on indictment.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Committal for trial on indictment.7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other jurisdiction Transfer to Crown Court of quarter sessions jurisdiction.8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Appeals to Crown Court.9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High Court jurisdiction in Crown Court proceedings.10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trial on indictment and other jurisdiction Sentences imposed and other decisions made by Crown Court.11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Right of audience.12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701"> Process to compel appearance before Crown Court.</Addition>131Any direction to appear and any condition of a recognizance to appear before the Crown Court, and any summons or order to appear before the Crown Court, may be framed so as to require appearance at such time and place as may be directed by the Crown Court, and if a time or place is specified in the direction condition, summons or order, it may be varied by any subsequent direction of the Crown Court.2Where an indictment has been signed although the person charged has not been committed for trial, the Crown Court may issue a summons requiring that person to appear before the Crown Court, or may issue a warrant for his arrest.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4The Crown Court may grant bail to any personawho has been committed in custody for appearance before the Crown Court, orbwho is in custody pursuant to a sentence imposed by a magistrates’ court, and who has appealed to the Crown Court against his conviction or sentence, orcwho is in the custody of the Crown Court pending the disposal of his case by the Crown Court, ordwho, after the decision of his case by the Crown Court, has applied to the Crown Court for the statement of a case for the High Court on that decision, orewho has applied to the High Court for an order of certiorari to remove proceedings in the Crown Court in his case into the High Court, or has applied to the High Court for leave to make such an application,and the time during which a person is released on bail under any provision of this subsection shall not count as part of any term of imprisonment or detention under his sentence.5Provision may be made by Crown Court rules as respects the powers of the Crown Court relating to bail, including any provision— aexcept in the case of bail in criminal proceedings, allowing the court, instead of requiring a person to enter into a recognizance to consent to his giving other security,ballowing the court to direct that a recognizance shall be entered into or other security given before a magistrates’ court or a justice of the peace, or, if the rules so provide, a person of such other description as is specified in the rules,cprescribing the manner in which a recognizance is to be entered into or other security given, and the persons by whom and the manner in which the recognizance or security may be enforced,dauthorising the recommittal, in such cases and by such courts or justices as may be prescribed by the rules, of persons released from custody in pursuance of the powers,emaking provision corresponding to sections 94 and 95 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 (varying or dispensing with requirements as to sureties, and postponement of taking recognizances).Any reference in any enactment to a recognizance shall include, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to any other description of security given instead of a recognizance, whether in pursuance of paragraph (a) above or otherwise.6The Crown Court, on issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person, may endorse the warrant for bail, and in any such case—athe person arrested under the warrant shall, unless the Crown Court otherwise directs, be taken to a police station, andbthe officer in charge of the station shall release him from custody if he, and any sureties required by the endorsement and approved by the officer, enter into recognizances of such amount as may be fixed by the endorsement.Provided that in the case of bail in criminal proceedings, the person arrested shall not be required to enter into a recognizance.7A person in custody in pursuance of a warrant issued by the Crown Court with a view to his appearance before the Crown Court shall be brought forthwith before either the Crown Court or a magistrates’ court, and if he is brought before a magistrates’ court—athe court shall commit him in custody or release him on bail until he can be brought or appear before the Crown Court at the time and place appointed by the Crown Court,bif the warrant is endorsed for bail, but the person in custody is unable to satisfy the conditions endorsed, the magistrates’ court may vary those conditions, if satisfied that it is proper to do so.8Section 4 of the Summary Jurisdiction (Process) Act 1881 (execution of process of English courts in Scotland) shall apply to process issued under this section as it applies to process issued under the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 by a magistrates’ court.9A magistrates’ court shall have jurisdiction, and a justice of the peace may act, under or in pursuance of this section whether or not the offence was committed, or the arrest was made, within the court’s area, or the area for which he was appointed.(10) In this section “bail in criminal proceedings” has the same meaning as in the Bail Act 1976. Practice and procedure: power to make rules.14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crown Court rules.15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Part III Judges Appointment of Circuit Judges.161Her Majesty may from time to time appoint as Circuit judges, to serve in the Crown Court and county courts and to carry out such other judicial functions as may be conferred on them under this or any other enactment, such qualified persons as may be recommended to Her by the Lord Chancellor.2The maximum number of Circuit judges shall be such as may be determined from time to time by the Lord Chancellor with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service.3No person shall be qualified to be appointed a Circuit judge unless—ahe has a 10 year Crown Court or 10 year county court qualification within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;bhe is a Recorder; orche has held as a full-time appointment for at least 3 years one of the offices listed in Part IA of Schedule 2.4Before recommending any person to Her Majesty for appointment as a Circuit judge, the Lord Chancellor shall take steps to satisfy himself that that person’s health is satisfactory.5The provisions of Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the appointment as Circuit judges of the holders of certain judicial offices, and the supplementary provisions in Part II of that Schedule shall have effect. Retirement, removal and disqualifications of Circuit judge.171Subject to subsections (2) to (4) below, a Circuit judge shall vacate his office at the end of the completed year of service in which he attains the age of seventy-two.2Where the Lord Chancellor considers it desirable in the public interest to retain a Circuit judge in office after the time at which he would otherwise retire in accordance with subsection (1) above, he may from time to time authorise the continuance in office of that judge until such date, not being later than the date on which the judge attains the age of seventy-five, as he thinks fit.3For the purposes of subsection (1) above a person who becomes a Circuit judge by virtue of any provision of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to this Act shall be treated as completing a year of service on the anniversary of his appointment to the office by virtue of which he becomes a Circuit judge.4The Lord Chancellor may, if he thinks fit, remove a Circuit judge from office on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Salaries and allowances of Circuit judges.181Subject to Part II of Schedule 2 to this Act, there shall be paid to each Circuit judge such salary as may be determined by the Lord Chancellor with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service.2Every salary payable under this section—ashall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund;bshall begin from the date of appointment and accrue due from day to day;cshall be payable at such intervals, not exceeding three months, as the Treasury may determine; anddmay be increased, but not reduced, by a further determination under this section.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . abecame a Circuit judge by virtue of having held any of the offices specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to this Act, andbheld that office before 10th May 1967 (that is to say before the passing of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967).5There shall be paid to Circuit judges out of money provided by Parliament such allowances as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, determine.<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19" id="section-19"><Pnumber>19</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/1" id="section-19-1"><Pnumber PuncAfter=")—(4)"><CommentaryRef Ref="c847747"/>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/5" id="section-19-5"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="c847748"/>5</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/6" id="section-19-6"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="c847749"/>6</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7" id="section-19-7"><Pnumber>7</Pnumber><P2para><Text>The decision of the Minister for the Civil Service shall be final on any question arising with regard to—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7/a" id="section-19-7-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the application of any of the provisions of this section to any person, or</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7/b" id="section-19-7-b"><Pnumber PuncAfter=")(c)"><CommentaryRef Ref="c847750"/>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group><P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="2004-07-22"><Title> Judges of county courts.20 1Every Circuit judge shall, by virtue of his office, be capable of sitting as a judge for any county court district in England and Wales, and the Lord Chancellor shall assign one or more Circuit judges to each district and may from time to time vary the assignment of Circuit judges among the districts.2Subject to any directions given by or on behalf of the Lord Chancellor, in any case where more than one Circuit judge is assigned to a district under subsection (1) above, any function conferred by or under the County Courts Act 1959 on the judge for a district may be exercised by any of the Circuit judges for the time being assigned to that district.3The following, that is—every judge of the Court of Appeal,every judge of the High Court,every Recorder,shall, by virtue of his office, be capable of sitting as a judge for any county court district in England and Wales and if he consents to do so, shall sit as such a judge at such times and on such occasions as the Lord Chancellor considers desirable.4Notwithstanding that he is not for the time being assigned to a particular district, a Circuit judge—ashall sit as a judge of that district at such times and on such occasions as the Lord Chancellor may direct; andbmay sit as a judge of that district in any case where it appears to him that the judge of that district is not, or none of the judges of that district is, available to deal with the case.5So much of Part I of the County Courts Act 1959 as makes special provision in relation to county court districts within the Duchy of Lancaster shall cease to have effect.6On the appointed day all appointments of temporary and deputy judges of county courts shall terminate and the provisions of the County Courts Act 1959 relating to such temporary and deputy judges shall cease to have effect.7Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation, in relation to the superannuation and other benefits payable to or in respect of persons who ceased to be judges of county courts before the day appointed for the coming into force of section 16(5) of this Act, of any enactment repealed or amended by this Act. Appointment of Recorders.211Her Majesty may from time to time appoint qualified persons, to be known as Recorders, to act as part-time judges of the Crown Court and to carry out such other judicial functions as may be conferred on them under this or any other enactment.2Every appointment of a person to be a Recorder shall be of a person recommended to Her Majesty by the Lord Chancellor, and no person shall be qualified to be appointed a Recorder unless he has a 10 year Crown Court or 10 year county court qualification, within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990.3The appointment of a person as a Recorder shall specify the term for which he is appointed and the frequency and duration of the occasions during that term on which he will be required to be available to undertake the duties of a Recorder.4Subject to subsection (5) below the Lord Chancellor may, with the agreement of the Recorder concerned, from time to time extend for such period as he thinks appropriate the term for which a Recorder is appointed.5Neither the initial term for which a Recorder is appointed nor any extension of that term under subsection (4) above shall be such as to continue his appointment as a Recorder after the end of the completed year of service in which he attains the age of seventy-two.6The Lord Chancellor may if he thinks fit terminate the appointment of a Recorder on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour or of a failure to comply with any requirement specified under subsection (3) above in the terms of his appointment.7There shall be paid to Recorders out of money provided by Parliament such remuneration and allowances as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, determine. Oaths to be taken by Circuit judges and Recorders.221Subject to the following provisions of this section, every Circuit judge and every Recorder shall take the oath of allegiance and the judicial oath; and the Promissory Oaths Act 1868 shall have effect as if the officers named in the Second Part of the Schedule to that Act included Circuit judges and Recorders.2Notwithstanding anything in the Promissory Oaths Act 1871, a Circuit judge shall take the oaths referred to in subsection (1) above before the Lord Chancellor, and a Recorder shall take those oaths before a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court or a Circuit judge.3Nothing in this section shall require an oath to be taken by a person who becomes a Circuit judge in accordance with any provision of Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act.<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760"> Circuit judge or Recorder sitting as High Court Judge.</Addition>231If requested to do so by or on behalf of the Lord Chancellor, a Circuit judge or Recorder shall sit as a judge of the High Court for the hearing of such case or cases or at such place and for such time as may be specified by or on behalf of the Lord Chancellor.2So long as a Circuit judge or Recorder sits as a judge of the High Court in pursuance of a request under this section he shall be treated, subject to subsection (3) below, for all purposes as, and accordingly may perform any of the functions of, a puisne judge of the High Court.3A Circuit judge or Recorder sitting as a judge of the High Court in pursuance of a request under this section shall not be treated as a judge of the High Court for the purpose of any provision made by or under any enactment and relating to—athe appointment, retirement, removal or disqualification of judges of the High Court,bthe tenure of office and oaths to be taken by such judges, orcthe remuneration, allowances or pensions of such judges.4Where a Circuit judge or Recorder is requested to sit as a judge of the High Court for a period of time then, notwithstanding the expiry of that time, he may attend at the High Court for the purpose of continuing to deal with, giving judgment in, or dealing with any ancillary matter relating to, any case which may have been begun before him when sitting as a judge of that court, and for that purpose and for the purpose of any proceedings subsequent thereon he shall be treated as a judge of the High Court.<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761"> Deputy High Court and Circuit judges.</Addition>241If it appears to the Lord Chancellor that it is expedient as a temporary measure to make an appointment under this subsection in order to facilitate the disposal of business in the High Court or the Crown Court he may appoint a person qualified for appointment as a puisne judge of the High Court under section 9 of the Judicature Act 1925 or any person who has held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court to be a deputy judge of the High Court during such period or on such occasions as the Lord Chancellor thinks fit.2If it appears to the Lord Chancellor that it is expedient as a temporary measure to make an appointment under this subsection in order to facilitate the disposal of business in the Crown Court or a county court he may appoint to be a deputy Circuit judge during such period or on such occasions as he thinks fit— aany barrister or solicitor of at least ten years’ standing,bany person who has held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court or as a Circuit judge; orcany person who, before the day appointed for the purposes of section 20 above, had retired from office as an official referee or judge of a county court.3Except as provided by subsection (4) below, during the period or on the occasions for which a deputy judge is appointed under this section, he shall be treated for all purposes as, and accordingly may perform any of the functions of, a puisne judge of the High Court or a Circuit judge, as the case may be.4A deputy judge appointed under this section shall not be treated as a judge of the High Court or Circuit judge for the purpose of any provision made by or under any enactment and relating to—athe appointment, retirement, removal or disqualification of judges of the High Court or Circuit judges,bthe tenure of office and oaths to be taken by judges of the High Court or Circuit judges, orcthe remuneration, allowances or pensions of judges of the High Court or Circuit judges.5Notwithstanding the expiry of any period for which a person is appointed under this section a deputy judge of the High Court or a deputy Circuit judge, he may attend at the High Court or, as the case may be, at the Crown Court or a county court, for the purpose of continuing to deal with, giving judgment in, or dealing with any ancillary matter relating to, any case which may have been begun before him when sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court or a deputy Circuit judge, and for that purpose and for the purpose of any proceedings subsequent thereon he shall be treated as a judge of the High Court or a Circuit judge, as the case may be.6There shall be paid, out of money provided by Parliament, to deputy judges of the High Court and deputy Circuit judges appointed under this section such remuneration and allowances as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, determine.<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764"> Deputy Circuit judges and assistant Recorders.</Addition>241If it appears to the Lord Chancellor that it is expedient as a temporary measure to make an appointment under this section in order to facilitate the disposal of business in the Crown Court or a county court or official referees’ business in the High Court, he may—aappoint to be a deputy Circuit judge, during such period or on such occasions as he thinks fit, any person who has held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court or as a Circuit judge; orbappoint to be an assistant Recorder, during such period or on such occasions as he thinks fit, any person who has a 10 year Crown Court or 10 year county court qualification, within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990..2Except as provided by subsection (3) below, during the period or on the occasions for which a deputy Circuit judge or assistant Recorder is appointed under this section he shall be treated for all purposes as, and accordingly may perform any of the functions of, a Circuit judge or a Recorder, as the case may be.3A deputy Circuit judge appointed under this section shall not be treated as a Circuit judge for the purpose of any provision made by or under any enactment and relating to the appointment, retirement, removal or disqualification of Circuit judges, the tenure of office and oaths, to be taken by such judges, or the remuneration, allowances or pensions of such judges; and section 21 of this Act shall not apply to an assistant Recorder appointed under this section.4Notwithstanding the expiry of any period for which a person is appointed under this section a deputy Circuit judge or an assistant Recorder, he may attend at the Crown Court or a county court or, in the case of a deputy Circuit judge, as regards official referees’ business, at the High Court for the purpose of continuing to deal with, giving judgment in, or dealing with any ancillary matter relating to, any case which may have been begun before him when sitting as a deputy Circuit judge or an assistant Recorder, and for that purpose and for the purpose of any proceedings subsequent thereon he shall be treated as a Circuit judge or a Recorder, as the case may be.5There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament to deputy Circuit judges and assistant Recorders appointed under this section such remuneration and allowances as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, determine.<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771"> Official referees’ business.</Addition>251After the appointed day no person shall be appointed to the office of official referee and on and after that day functions conferred on official referees by provisions of rules of the Supreme Court, or by any other provision, shall be discharged in accordance with the provisions of this section.2Such of the Circuit judges as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time determine shall discharge the said functions conferred on official referees.3The cases in which jurisdiction or powers of the High Court or a judge of the High Court may be exercised by official referees, whether by virtue of rules of court made under section 15 of the Administration of Justice Act 1956 or otherwise, shall be known as “official referees’ business”, and except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in any enactment, in rules of court or in any other document to an official referee shall, in accordance with this section, be construed as, or where the context requires as including, a reference to a Circuit judge discharging the functions of an official referee.4Subject to rules of court, the distribution of official referees’ business, performed in accordance with this section, shall be determined in accordance with directions given by or on behalf of the Lord Chancellor. Part IV Officers and Accommodation<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773"> Masters and registrars to be appointed by Lord Chancellor.</Addition>261On and after the appointed day the following officers shall be appointed by the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service as to numbers and salaries,—athe masters, assistant masters and registrars specified in Part I of Schedule 3 to the Judicature Act 1925, other than the Master of the Court of Protection (for whose appointment by the Lord Chancellor provision is made by section 100 of the Mental Health Act 1959);bthe Queen’s coroner and attorney and master of the Crown Office;cthe registrar, assistant registrars and deputy assistant registrars of criminal appeals;dthe admiralty registrar;echancery registrars and assistant chancery registrars; andfdistrict probate registrars.2The person appointed to the office of Queen’s coroner and attorney and master of the Crown Office shall, by virtue of his appointment, be a master of the Supreme Court (Queen’s Bench Division).3In section 122 of the Judicature Act 1925 (which relates to certain additional duties of the senior master of the Queen’s Bench Division) for the words “The senior master” there shall be subtituted the words “The Lord Chancellor shall appoint one of the masters” and after the word “Division)”there shall be inserted the words “to be the senior master and the person so appointed”.4In section 128A of the Judicature Act 1925 (which relates to the office of district probate registrar) for any reference in subsection (2) or subsection (3) to the President of the family dvision thre shall be substituted a reference to the Lord Chancellor. Administrative and other court staff. <CommentaryRef Ref="c847777"/>27The Lord Chancellor may, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service as to numbers and salaries, appoint such officers and other staff for the Supreme Court (including the district probate registries) and county courts as appear to him necessary—afor setting up a unified administrative court service, andbfor discharging any functions in those courts conferred by or under this or any other Act on officers so appointed, andcgenerally for carrying out the administrative work of those courts.2The principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and for the time being in force shall, with the necessary adaptations, apply to such officers and staff as it applies to other persons employed in the civil service of the State. Provision of accommodation.281The Secretary of State for the Environment may with the approval of the Treasury provide, equip, maintain and manage such courts, offices, buildings, judges’ lodgings and other accommodation as may be necessary or desirable for carrying on the business of the Supreme Court and county courts.2It is hereby declared that the expression “land necessary for the public service” in—asection 2 of the Commissioners of Works Act 1852 (acquisition by agreement), andbsection 228(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (power of Secretary of State to acquire compulsorily land necessary for the public service)includes any land which is required to discharge the duties of the said Secretary of State under this section.3The Secretary of State for the Environment may, if he thinks fit, in discharging his duties under this section enter into arrangements with a local or other public authority for the provision of accommodation to be used in part for the purposes set out in this section, and in part for other purposes, including in particular the sittings of a magistrates’ court.4Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect as respects premises formerly used for business of the abolished courts, and judges’ lodgings. Accommodation in City of London.291The courthouse and accommodation which up to the appointed day have been respectively known as the Central Criminal Court and the Mayor’s and City of London Court shall continue to be known by those names, and it shall be the duty of the Common Council of the City of London (in this section referred to as “the Common Council”) to continue to make the said premises available for use for the sittings and business of those courts respectively.2The Common Council shall not undertake any alteration or extension of the buildings or accommodation which they are to make available for the purpose of the said courts, or provide further accommodation for that purpose, without the consent of the Lord Chancellor.3The duties imposed by this section on the Common Council may at any time be varied, restricted or terminated by agreement between the Lord Chancellor and the Common Council. Advisory committees.30The Lord Chancellor may constitute, on a permanent or temporary basis, one or more advisory committees to advise him on such questions relating to the Supreme Court and county courts as he may from time to time refer to them, and shall appoint the members of any such committee with regard to their knowledge of the work of the courts and social conditions.Part V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c847801"/>31Part VI Miscellaneous and Supplemental Merger or abolition of certain courts and offices Merger of Palatine Courts with High Court.411On the appointed day—athe Court of Chancery of the county palatine of Lancaster (in this Act referred to as “the Lancaster Palatine Court”), andbthe Court of Chancery of the county palatine of Durham and Sadberge (in this Act referred to as “the Durham Palatine Court”),shall be merged with the High Court and accordingly on and after that day no jurisdiction, whether conferred by statute or otherwise, shall be exercised by the Palatine Courts as such.2The provisions of Part I of Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect with respect to certain transitional matters consequential on the provisions of this section. Local court for City of London.421The Mayor’s and City of London Court, as constituted immediately before the commencement of this Act, is hereby abolished.2For the purpose of establishing a court to exercise so much of the jurisdiction previously exercised by the Mayor’s and City of London Court as is appropriate to a county court and for exercising any other jurisdiction which may hereafter be conferred on a county court, the City of London shall, by virtue of this section, become a county court district and accordingly the enactments relating to county courts shall apply in relation to the county court for the City of London as they apply in relation to a county court for any other county court district.3Without prejudice to subsection (1) above, the county court for the district constituted by subsection (2) above shall be known as the Mayor’s and City of London Court and the Circuit judge assigned to that district under section 20(1) of this Act shall be known as the judge of the Mayor’s and City of London Court.4The provisions of Part II of Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect with respect to certain transitional matters consequential on the provisions of this section. Abolition of certain other local courts.431There are hereby abolished the following local courts of record, being those which actively exercise a civil jurisdiction comparable to or greater than that of the county court for the district in which they are situated:—athe Tolzey and Pie Poudre Courts of the City and County of Bristol;bthe Liverpool Court of Passage;cthe Norwich Guildhall Court; anddthe Court of Record for the Hundred of Salford.2The provisions of Part III of Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect with respect to certain transitional matters consequential on the abolition of the courts specified in subsection (1) above. Abolition of certain offices.441The following offices are hereby abolished:—achairman and deputy chairman of county quarter sessions; recorder, and deputy, assistant or temporary recorder, of a borough (but not the Recorder of London); clerk and deputy clerk of the peace;bany judicial or other office in a court abolished or merged with the High Court by the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act, other than the office of Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster;cclerk of assize, circuit bailiff and any other office the duties of which relate exclusively to courts of assize.2The Lord Chancellor may, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service, by regulations provide for the payment out of money provided by Parliament of compensation to or in respect of persons who suffer loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments which is attributable—ato the preceding provisions of this section, orbto the abolition or merger of any court (including courts of assize, courts of quarter sessions and Palatine courts) by this Act, orcto the transfer by this Act of any function to the Lord Chancellor or to any other Minister.3Regulations under this section may—ainclude provision as to the manner in which and the person to whom any claim for compensation under the regulations is to be made, and for the determination of all questions arising under the regulations,bmake special provision for persons who, but for any national service, would be holders of any office or engaged in any employment,cmake different provision for different classes of persons and for other different circumstances, and make, or authorise the Lord Chancellor to make, exceptions and conditions,dbe framed so as to have effect from a date earlier than the making of the regulations,but so that regulations having effect from a date earlier than their making shall not place any individual in a worse position than he would have been in if the regulations had been so framed as to have effect only from the date of their making.4Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c847802"/>45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c847803"/>46 Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c847804"/>47. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c847805"/>50 Construction and consequential amendments511. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Schedule 6 to this Act, which amends enactments about costs, shall have effect. Award of costs where information or complaint is not proceeded with.521. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Where—a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ba complaint is made to a justice of the peace acting for any area but the complaint is not proceeded with,a magistrates’ court for that area may make such order as to costs to be paid . . . , by the complainant to the defendant as it thinks just and reasonable.4An order under subsection (3) above shall specify the amount of the costs ordered to be paid.(5) . . . for the purpose of enforcement an order under subsection (3) above made in relation to a complaint which is not proceeded with shall be treated as if it were an order made under section 64 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (power to award, and enforcement of, costs in civil proceedings). Administrative functions of justices Administrative functions of justices.531. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the following provisions of this section shall have effect with respect to certain administrative functions exercised by courts of quarter sessions and by members of such courts before the day appointed for the purposes of section 3 of this Act.2a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Visiting committees appointed as mentioned in subsection (1) of section 6 of the Prison Act 1952 (that is to say by courts of quarter sessions for counties and benches of magistrates for boroughs) shall be replaced by boards of visitors appointed under subsection (2) of that section, and accordingly the said section 6 and section 43(4) of the Prison Act 1952 (which relates to the application of certain provisions of that Act about prisons to remand centres, detention centres and Borstal institutions) shall be amended in accordance with Part II of Schedule 7 to this Act.4For the purpose of replacing the references to courts of quarter sessions where they occur in the Licensing Act 1964 in relation to—a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bthe licensing planning committee for any licensing planning area that consists of or includes the metropolis, as defined in that Act,the provisions of that Act specified in Part III of Schedule 7 to this Act shall be amended in accordance with that Part of that Schedule.5In paragraph (b) of section 2(2) of the Police Act 1964 (one-third of police committee for a county police area to be magistrates for the county appointed by quarter sessions) for the words from “magistrates” in the first place where it occurs to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted the words “appointed from among their own number by the magistrates for the county in accordance with a scheme made by the magistrates’ courts committee for, or for an area including, the county and approved by the Secretary of State”.6Without prejudice to their effect on appointments made after the commencement of this Act, nothing in subsection (2), subsection (4) or subsection (5) above shall affect the membership of any probation and after-care committee, county compensation authority or police committee in existence at the commencement of this Act.7The Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument make such amendments as appear to him to be expedient in consequence of the provisions of this Act in—aany order deemed to be made under paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (relating to combined probation and after-care areas), andbany amalgamation scheme within the meaning of Part I of the Police Act 1964;and an order under this subsection amending any such amalgamation scheme shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament. Boroughs: honorary offices Boroughs: honorary offices.541The council of a borough shall have power to appoint a person to be honorary recorder of the borough.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3A person shall not be qualified to hold office as an honorary recorder of a borough . . . unless he is a Circuit judge or Recorder (that is to say a Recorder appointed under this Act):Provided that this subsection shall not apply to a borough which immediately before the appointed day—ahad power by charter to appoint a recorder of the borough, andbdid not have a separate court of quarter sessions.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Supplemental Financial provisions.551There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament, or out of the Consolidated Fund, any increase attributable to the provisions of this Act in the sums respectively so payable under any other enactment.2There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any sums payable by any Minister under or by virtue of this Act.3Any sum payable under this Act to the Lord Chancellor or any other Minister shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.4In the application of section 3(1) of the Local Government Act 1966 (variation of rate support grant orders) to a rate support grant order made before the date of the coming into operation of any provision of this Act for a grant period ending after that date, the Minister having power to make orders under the said section 3 shall take into account any relief obtained, or likely to be obtained, by local authorities—awhich is attributable to the coming into operation of the said provision of this Act, andbwhich was not taken into account in making the rate support grant order the variation of which is in question.The provisions of this subsection are without prejudice to section 3(4) of the said Act of 1966 (under which an order under that section may vary the matters prescribed by a rate support grant order). Minor and consequential amendments, transitional provisions and repeals.561Schedule 8 to this Act (which contains consequential and other amendments) shall have effect.2In the enactments listed in Schedule 9 to this Act (which confer jurisdiction transferred to the Crown Court) for any reference to quarter sessions there shall be substituted a reference to the Crown Court.This subsection applies to references to quarter sessions however expressed and in particular to any reference to “the next court of quarter sessions”, or to the quarter sessions for any particular area, or to any sessions which, by section 13(14) of the Interpretation Act 1889, were included in the expression “court of quarter sessions”.3Schedule 10 to this Act, which contains transitional provisions, shall have effect.4The enactments specified in Schedule 11 to this Act (which includes certain obsolete or unnecessary enactments) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, but subject to any proviso at the end of that Schedule. Interpretation of this Act and rules of construction of other Acts.571In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—the “appointed day” means the commencement of this Act which, as provided by this Act, may be a different date for different purposes,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sentence”, in relation to an offence, includes any order made by a court when dealing with an offender including—a hospital order under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983, with or without an order restricting discharge, anda recommendation for deportation made when dealing with an offender.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Except where the context otherwise requires, in this or any other Act—a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bany reference to the courts abolished by this Act shall include a reference to the Lancaster Palatine Court and the Durham Palatine Court (which are abolished on merger with the High Court).4Except where the context otherwise requires, in any Act passed after this Act the expression “recorder” shall not include the Recorder of London or an honorary recorder of a borough.5Any power of making orders contained in any provision of this Act shall include power to vary or revoke an order made under that provision.6It is hereby declared that any power conferred by this Act on the Lord Chancellor or any other authority to give directions includes a power to vary or rescind any direction so given.7Any reference in this Act to any other enactment is a reference thereto as amended, and includes a reference thereto as extended or applied, by or under any other enactment, including this Act.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c847861"/>58 Short title, commencement and extent.591This Act may be cited as the Courts Act 1971.2This Act shall come into force on such date as the Lord Chancellor may by order in a statutory instrument appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, or for different purposes.3Without prejudice to the other transitory provisions of this Act, any order under this section may make such transitional provision as appears to the Lord Chancellor to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions thereby brought into force, including such adaptations of those provisions or any provisions of this Act then in force, and such savings of the provisions repealed by this Act, as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the partial operation of this Act (whether before or after the day appointed by the order).4A statutory instrument made under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.5The following provisions of this Act, and no others, shall extend to Scotland—asection 13(8) and, so far as it relates to the Court of Session, section 46,b. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cany provision of this Act affecting the operation of the law of Scotland in relation to courts in England and Wales,dthe provisions of this Act about interpretation and commencement,eSchedule 8 to this Act so far as it amends section 14 of the Indictable Offences Act 1848, . . . 6The following provisions of this Act, and no others, shall extend to Northern Ireland—asection 46 of this Act except so far as it relates to the Court of Session . . . b. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cany provision of this Act affecting the operation of the law of Northern Ireland in relation to courts in England and Wales,dthe provisions of this Act about interpretation and commencement,eSchedule 8 to this Act so far as it amends section 12 of the Indictable Offences Act 1848 and section 30 of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851.7Schedule 8 to this Act shall extend to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands so far as it amends section 13 of the Indictable Offences Act 1848.Pt. 4 functions tranferred (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 1Pts. I, II (ss. 1–15) repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7Words inserted by Bail Act 1976 (c. 63), Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(2)S. 13(3) repealed by Bail Act 1976 (c. 63), Sch. 3Words substituted by Bail Act 1976 (c. 63), Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(3)S. 13(5)(a) substituted by Bail Act 1976 (c. 63), Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(4)1952 c. 55. Proviso added by Bail Act 1976 (c. 63), Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(5)1881 c. 24. 1952 c. 55. S. 13(10) added by Bail Act 1976 (c. 63), Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(6)1976 c. 63. S. 16(3)(a)–(c) substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), s. 71(2), Sch. 10 para. 31(1)S. 16(3)(c) modified by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37, 76:1), s. 125(6), Sch. 19 para. 5S. 17(5) repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24), Sch. 3 and Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 25), Sch. 3 Pt. IS. 17(6) repealed by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 125(7), Sch. 20S. 18 modified (9.11.1998) by 1998 c. 42, s. 18(4)(d) (with ss. 7(8), 22(5))S. 18 modified (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 68(3)(a), 108(3)(b) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2))S. 18(3) repealed by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37, 76:1), ss. 84(c), 125(7), Sch. 20S. 18(4) repealed by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 125(7), Sch. 201967 c. 28. S. 19(1)–(4) repealed by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), s. 36(2), Sch. 4S. 19(5) repealed by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37, 76:1), s. 125(7), Sch. 20 (subject to a saving in s. 125(6), Sch. 19 para. 10(3))S. 19(6) repealed by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), s. 36(2), Sch. 4S. 19(7) paragraphs (b) and (c) repealed by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), s. 36(2), Sch. 4S. 20(1)–(4) repealed (E.W.) by County Courts Act 1984 (c. 28, SIF 34), s. 148(3), Sch. 41959 c. 22. 1959 c. 22. 1959 c. 22. Words substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), s. 71(2), Sch. 10 para. 32(1)1868 c. 72. 1871 c. 48. S. 23 repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Courts Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7S. 24 with subsections (1)–(5) substituted (E.W.) for s. 24 with subsections (1)–(6) by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 1461925 c. 49. S. 24(2)(a) substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1973 (c. 15), s. 15S. 24 with subsections (1)–(5) substituted (E.W.) for s. 24 with subsections (1)–(6) by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 146Words substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), s. 71(2), Sch. 10 para. 32(2)Words substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c. 53, SIF 37), s. 59(3)Ss. 25, 26 repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 71956 c. 46. Ss. 25, 26 repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 71925 c. 49. 1959 c. 72. The text of ss. 26(3)(4), 51(2), 53(5) and 56(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.S. 27 extended by Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1), s. 4(7) (as inserted by Finance Act 1984 (c. 43, SIF 63:1), s. 127(1), Sch. 22 paras. 1, 8)S. 27 extended by Finance Act 1985 (c. 54, SIF 40:2), s. 30, Sch. 8 para. 6(1).S. 27 extended (1.9.1994) by 1994 c. 23, ss. 82(3), 101(1)S. 27(2) inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 801972 c. 11. 1852 c. 28. S. 28(2)(b) substituted by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 25, Sch. 31990 c.8 (123:1). Ss. 31–40 repealed by Juries Act 1974 (c. 23), Sch. 3S. 45 repealed by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c. 42, SIF 49:3), s. 46(3), Sch. 3S. 46 repealed by Patents Act 1977 (c. 37), Sch. 6Ss. 47–49, 51(1) repealed by Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14), Sch. 2S. 50 repealed by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7Ss. 47–49, 51(1) repealed by Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14), Sch. 2The text of ss. 26(3)(4), 51(2), 53(5) and 56(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.S. 52(1)(2) repealed by Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14), Sch. 2S. 52(3)(a) repealed by Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14), Sch. 2Words repealed by Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14), Sch. 2Words substituted by Magistrates Courts' Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), s. 154(1), Sch. 7 para. 96Words repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55, SIF 82), s. 71, Sch. 3S. 53(2)(a) repealed by Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62), Sch. 6S. 53(2)(b) repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1972 (c. 71), Sch. 6 Pt. II1952 c. 52. 1952 c. 52. 1964 c. 26. S. 53(4)(a) repealed (with saving) by Licensing (Alcohol Education and Research) Act 1981 (c. 28, SIF 68A:1), s. 11, Sch. 2 Pt. IThe text of ss. 26(3)(4), 51(2), 53(5) and 56(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.1964 c. 48 Words substituted by Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62), Sch. 5 para. 411973 c. 62. 1964 c. 48. S. 54(2)(4) repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 301966 c. 42. 1889 c. 63. The text of ss. 26(3)(4), 51(2), 53(5) and 56(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.Definition of “the Judicature Act 1925” repealed by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7Words substituted by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), s. 148(1), Sch. 4 para. 28S. 57(2) repealed by Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), Sch. 13S. 57(3)(a) repealed by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7S. 58 repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), s. 42, Sch. 6 Pt. IPower of appointment conferred by s. 59(2) exercised by S.I. 1971/1151S. 59(5)(b) repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24), Sch. 31848 c. 42. Words repealed by Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), s. 65(7), Sch. 13Words repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), s. 42, Sch. 6 Pt. IS. 59(6)(b) repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24), Sch. 3 and Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 25), Sch. 3 Pt. I1848 c. 42. 1851 c. 93. 1848 c. 42.
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<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">Where an indictment has been signed although the person charged has not been committed for trial, the Crown Court may issue a summons requiring that person to appear before the Crown Court, or may issue a warrant for his arrest.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/3" id="section-13-3">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847722"/>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">3</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4" id="section-13-4">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">4</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p796" CommentaryRef="c847723">The Crown Court may grant bail to any person</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701"></Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4/a" id="section-13-4-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">who has been committed in custody for appearance before the Crown Court, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4/b" id="section-13-4-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">who is in custody pursuant to a sentence imposed by a magistrates’ court, and who has appealed to the Crown Court against his conviction or sentence, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4/c" id="section-13-4-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">who is in the custody of the Crown Court pending the disposal of his case by the Crown Court, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4/d/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4/d" id="section-13-4-d">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">d</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">who, after the decision of his case by the Crown Court, has applied to the Crown Court for the statement of a case for the High Court on that decision, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4/e/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/4/e" id="section-13-4-e">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">e</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">who has applied to the High Court for an order of certiorari to remove proceedings in the Crown Court in his case into the High Court, or has applied to the High Court for leave to make such an application,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">and the time during which a person is </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p832" CommentaryRef="c847723">released on</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701"> bail under any provision of this subsection shall not count as part of any term of imprisonment or detention under his sentence.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5" id="section-13-5">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">5</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">Provision may be made by Crown Court rules as respects the powers of the Crown Court relating to bail, including any provision— </Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/a" id="section-13-5-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p842" CommentaryRef="c847725">a</Addition>
</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p842" CommentaryRef="c847725">except in the case of bail in criminal proceedings, allowing the court, instead of requiring a person to enter into a recognizance to consent to his giving other security,</Addition>
</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/b" id="section-13-5-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">allowing the court to direct that a recognizance shall be entered into or other security given before a magistrates’ court or a justice of the peace, or, if the rules so provide, a person of such other description as is specified in the rules,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/c" id="section-13-5-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">prescribing the manner in which a recognizance is to be entered into or other security given, and the persons by whom and the manner in which the recognizance or security may be enforced,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/d/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/d" id="section-13-5-d">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">d</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">authorising the recommittal, in such cases and by such courts or justices as may be prescribed by the rules, of persons released from custody in pursuance of the powers,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/e/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/e" id="section-13-5-e">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">e</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">making provision corresponding to sections 94 and 95 of the </Addition>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847726"/>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 (varying or dispensing with requirements as to sureties, and postponement of taking recognizances).</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">Any reference in any enactment to a recognizance shall include, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to any other description of security given instead of a recognizance, whether in pursuance of paragraph (a) above or otherwise.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/6" id="section-13-6">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">6</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">The Crown Court, on issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person, may endorse the warrant for bail, and in any such case—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/6/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/6/a" id="section-13-6-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">the person arrested under the warrant shall, unless the Crown Court otherwise directs, be taken to a police station, and</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/6/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/6/b" id="section-13-6-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">the officer in charge of the station shall release him from custody if he, and any sureties required by the endorsement and approved by the officer, enter into recognizances of such amount as may be fixed by the endorsement.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p898" CommentaryRef="c847727">Provided that in the case of bail in criminal proceedings, the person arrested shall not be required to enter into a recognizance.</Addition>
</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/7/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/7" id="section-13-7">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">7</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">A person in custody in pursuance of a warrant issued by the Crown Court with a view to his appearance before the Crown Court shall be brought forthwith before either the Crown Court or a magistrates’ court, and if he is brought before a magistrates’ court—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/7/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/7/a" id="section-13-7-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">the court shall commit him in custody or release him on bail until he can be brought or appear before the Crown Court at the time and place appointed by the Crown Court,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/7/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/7/b" id="section-13-7-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">if the warrant is endorsed for bail, but the person in custody is unable to satisfy the conditions endorsed, the magistrates’ court may vary those conditions, if satisfied that it is proper to do so.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/8/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/8" id="section-13-8">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">8</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">Section 4 of the </Addition>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847728"/>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">Summary Jurisdiction (Process) Act 1881 (execution of process of English courts in Scotland) shall apply to process issued under this section as it applies to process issued under the </Addition>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847729"/>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 by a magistrates’ court.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/9/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/9" id="section-13-9">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">9</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">A magistrates’ court shall have jurisdiction, and a justice of the peace may act, under or in pursuance of this section whether or not the offence was committed, or the arrest was made, within the court’s area, or the area for which he was appointed.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p937" CommentaryRef="c847730">(10) In this section “</Addition>
</Addition>
<Term id="term-bail-in-criminal-proceedings">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p937" CommentaryRef="c847730">bail in criminal proceedings</Addition>
</Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p937" CommentaryRef="c847730">” has the same meaning as in the </Addition>
</Addition>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847731"/>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p758" CommentaryRef="c847701">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p937" CommentaryRef="c847730">Bail Act 1976.</Addition>
</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictStartDate="1991-02-01">
<Title> Practice and procedure: power to make rules.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/14/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/14" id="section-14">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847701"/>
14
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</Text>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictStartDate="1991-02-01">
<Title> Crown Court rules.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/15/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/15" id="section-15">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847701"/>
15
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</Text>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Pblock>
</Part>
<Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/part/III/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/part/III" NumberOfProvisions="11" RestrictEndDate="1995-03-31" id="part-III" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Number>Part III</Number>
<Title> Judges</Title>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="2008-07-21">
<Title> Appointment of Circuit Judges.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16" id="section-16">
<Pnumber>16</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/1" id="section-16-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Her Majesty may from time to time appoint as Circuit judges, to serve in the Crown Court and county courts and to carry out such other judicial functions as may be conferred on them under this or any other enactment, such qualified persons as may be recommended to Her by the Lord Chancellor.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/2" id="section-16-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The maximum number of Circuit judges shall be such as may be determined from time to time by the Lord Chancellor with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/3" id="section-16-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
No person shall be qualified to be appointed a Circuit judge
<Addition ChangeId="d30p8879" CommentaryRef="c847734">unless—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/3/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/3/a" id="section-16-3-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p8879" CommentaryRef="c847734">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p8879" CommentaryRef="c847734">he has a 10 year Crown Court or 10 year county court qualification within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/3/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/3/b" id="section-16-3-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p8879" CommentaryRef="c847734">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p8879" CommentaryRef="c847734">he is a Recorder; or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/3/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/3/c" id="section-16-3-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p8879" CommentaryRef="c847734">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847735"/>
c
</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p8879" CommentaryRef="c847734">he has held as a full-time appointment for at least 3 years one of the offices listed in Part IA of Schedule 2.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/4" id="section-16-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Before recommending any person to Her Majesty for appointment as a Circuit judge, the Lord Chancellor shall take steps to satisfy himself that that person’s health is satisfactory.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/5" id="section-16-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The provisions of Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the appointment as Circuit judges of the holders of certain judicial offices, and the supplementary provisions in Part II of that Schedule shall have effect.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1995-03-31" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title> Retirement, removal and disqualifications of Circuit judge.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17" id="section-17">
<Pnumber>17</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/1" id="section-17-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subject to subsections (2) to (4) below, a Circuit judge shall vacate his office at the end of the completed year of service in which he attains the age of seventy-two.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/2" id="section-17-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where the Lord Chancellor considers it desirable in the public interest to retain a Circuit judge in office after the time at which he would otherwise retire in accordance with subsection (1) above, he may from time to time authorise the continuance in office of that judge until such date, not being later than the date on which the judge attains the age of seventy-five, as he thinks fit.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/3" id="section-17-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>For the purposes of subsection (1) above a person who becomes a Circuit judge by virtue of any provision of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to this Act shall be treated as completing a year of service on the anniversary of his appointment to the office by virtue of which he becomes a Circuit judge.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/4" id="section-17-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Lord Chancellor may, if he thinks fit, remove a Circuit judge from office on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/5" id="section-17-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847736"/>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/6" id="section-17-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847737"/>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictStartDate="1991-02-01">
<Title> Salaries and allowances of Circuit judges.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18" id="section-18">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847743"/>
18
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/1" id="section-18-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subject to Part II of Schedule 2 to this Act, there shall be paid to each Circuit judge such salary as may be determined by the Lord Chancellor with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/2" id="section-18-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Every salary payable under this section—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/2/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/2/a" id="section-18-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/2/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/2/b" id="section-18-2-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>shall begin from the date of appointment and accrue due from day to day;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/2/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/2/c" id="section-18-2-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>shall be payable at such intervals, not exceeding three months, as the Treasury may determine; and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/2/d/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/2/d" id="section-18-2-d">
<Pnumber>d</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>may be increased, but not reduced, by a further determination under this section.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/3" id="section-18-3">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847744"/>
3
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/4" id="section-18-4">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847745"/>
4
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/4/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/4/a" id="section-18-4-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>became a Circuit judge by virtue of having held any of the offices specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to this Act, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/4/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/4/b" id="section-18-4-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
held that office before 10th May 1967 (that is to say before the passing of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847746"/>
Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967).
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/5" id="section-18-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>There shall be paid to Circuit judges out of money provided by Parliament such allowances as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, determine.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictStartDate="1991-02-01">
<Title/>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19" id="section-19">
<Pnumber>19</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/1" id="section-19-1">
<Pnumber PuncAfter=")—(4)">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847747"/>
1
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/5" id="section-19-5">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847748"/>
5
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/6" id="section-19-6">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847749"/>
6
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7" id="section-19-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The decision of the Minister for the Civil Service shall be final on any question arising with regard to—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7/a" id="section-19-7-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the application of any of the provisions of this section to any person, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7/b" id="section-19-7-b">
<Pnumber PuncAfter=")(c)">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847750"/>
b
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="2004-07-22">
<Title> Judges of county courts.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20" id="section-20">
<Pnumber>20</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/1" id="section-20-1">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">1</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">Every Circuit judge shall, by virtue of his office, be capable of sitting as a judge for any county court district in England and Wales, and the Lord Chancellor shall assign one or more Circuit judges to each district and may from time to time vary the assignment of Circuit judges among the districts.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/2" id="section-20-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">Subject to any directions given by or on behalf of the Lord Chancellor, in any case where more than one Circuit judge is assigned to a district under subsection (1) above, any function conferred by or under the </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847752"/>
County Courts Act 1959 on the judge for a district may be exercised by any of the Circuit judges for the time being assigned to that district.
</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/3" id="section-20-3">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">3</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">The following, that is—</Addition>
</Text>
<UnorderedList Decoration="none">
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">every judge of the Court of Appeal,</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">every judge of the High Court,</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">every Recorder,</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</UnorderedList>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">shall, by virtue of his office, be capable of sitting as a judge for any county court district in England and Wales and if he consents to do so, shall sit as such a judge at such times and on such occasions as the Lord Chancellor considers desirable.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/4" id="section-20-4">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">4</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">Notwithstanding that he is not for the time being assigned to a particular district, a Circuit judge—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/4/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/4/a" id="section-20-4-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">shall sit as a judge of that district at such times and on such occasions as the Lord Chancellor may direct; and</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/4/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/4/b" id="section-20-4-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9021" CommentaryRef="c847751">may sit as a judge of that district in any case where it appears to him that the judge of that district is not, or none of the judges of that district is, available to deal with the case.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/5" id="section-20-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
So much of Part I of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847753"/>
County Courts Act 1959 as makes special provision in relation to county court districts within the Duchy of Lancaster shall cease to have effect.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/6" id="section-20-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
On the appointed day all appointments of temporary and deputy judges of county courts shall terminate and the provisions of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847754"/>
County Courts Act 1959 relating to such temporary and deputy judges shall cease to have effect.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/7/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/7" id="section-20-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation, in relation to the superannuation and other benefits payable to or in respect of persons who ceased to be judges of county courts before the day appointed for the coming into force of section 16(5) of this Act, of any enactment repealed or amended by this Act.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1995-03-31" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title> Appointment of Recorders.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/21" id="section-21">
<Pnumber>21</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/1" id="section-21-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Her Majesty may from time to time appoint qualified persons, to be known as Recorders, to act as part-time judges of the Crown Court and to carry out such other judicial functions as may be conferred on them under this or any other enactment.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/2" id="section-21-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Every appointment of a person to be a Recorder shall be of a person recommended to Her Majesty by the Lord Chancellor, and no person shall be qualified to be appointed a Recorder unless
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9120" CommentaryRef="c847755">he has a 10 year Crown Court or 10 year county court qualification, within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/3" id="section-21-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The appointment of a person as a Recorder shall specify the term for which he is appointed and the frequency and duration of the occasions during that term on which he will be required to be available to undertake the duties of a Recorder.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/4" id="section-21-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subject to subsection (5) below the Lord Chancellor may, with the agreement of the Recorder concerned, from time to time extend for such period as he thinks appropriate the term for which a Recorder is appointed.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/5" id="section-21-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Neither the initial term for which a Recorder is appointed nor any extension of that term under subsection (4) above shall be such as to continue his appointment as a Recorder after the end of the completed year of service in which he attains the age of seventy-two.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/6" id="section-21-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Lord Chancellor may if he thinks fit terminate the appointment of a Recorder on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour or of a failure to comply with any requirement specified under subsection (3) above in the terms of his appointment.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/7/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/21/7" id="section-21-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>There shall be paid to Recorders out of money provided by Parliament such remuneration and allowances as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, determine.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="2006-04-03">
<Title> Oaths to be taken by Circuit judges and Recorders.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/22/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/22" id="section-22">
<Pnumber>22</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/22/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/22/1" id="section-22-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Subject to the following provisions of this section, every Circuit judge and every Recorder shall take the oath of allegiance and the judicial oath; and the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847758"/>
Promissory Oaths Act 1868 shall have effect as if the officers named in the Second Part of the Schedule to that Act included Circuit judges and Recorders.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/22/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/22/2" id="section-22-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Notwithstanding anything in the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847759"/>
Promissory Oaths Act 1871, a Circuit judge shall take the oaths referred to in subsection (1) above before the Lord Chancellor, and a Recorder shall take those oaths before a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court or a Circuit judge.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/22/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/22/3" id="section-22-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Nothing in this section shall require an oath to be taken by a person who becomes a Circuit judge in accordance with any provision of Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760"> Circuit judge or Recorder sitting as High Court Judge.</Addition>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/23" id="section-23">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">23</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/1" id="section-23-1">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">1</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">If requested to do so by or on behalf of the Lord Chancellor, a Circuit judge or Recorder shall sit as a judge of the High Court for the hearing of such case or cases or at such place and for such time as may be specified by or on behalf of the Lord Chancellor.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/2" id="section-23-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">So long as a Circuit judge or Recorder sits as a judge of the High Court in pursuance of a request under this section he shall be treated, subject to subsection (3) below, for all purposes as, and accordingly may perform any of the functions of, a puisne judge of the High Court.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/3" id="section-23-3">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">3</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">A Circuit judge or Recorder sitting as a judge of the High Court in pursuance of a request under this section shall not be treated as a judge of the High Court for the purpose of any provision made by or under any enactment and relating to—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/3/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/3/a" id="section-23-3-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">the appointment, retirement, removal or disqualification of judges of the High Court,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/3/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/3/b" id="section-23-3-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">the tenure of office and oaths to be taken by such judges, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/3/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/3/c" id="section-23-3-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">the remuneration, allowances or pensions of such judges.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/23/4" id="section-23-4">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">4</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1627" CommentaryRef="c847760">Where a Circuit judge or Recorder is requested to sit as a judge of the High Court for a period of time then, notwithstanding the expiry of that time, he may attend at the High Court for the purpose of continuing to deal with, giving judgment in, or dealing with any ancillary matter relating to, any case which may have been begun before him when sitting as a judge of that court, and for that purpose and for the purpose of any proceedings subsequent thereon he shall be treated as a judge of the High Court.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1991-02-02" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761"> Deputy High Court and Circuit judges.</Addition>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24" id="section-24">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">24</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/1" id="section-24-1">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">1</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">If it appears to the Lord Chancellor that it is expedient as a temporary measure to make an appointment under this subsection in order to facilitate the disposal of business in the High Court or the Crown Court he may appoint a person qualified for appointment as a puisne judge of the High Court under section 9 of the </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847762"/>
Judicature Act 1925 or any person who has held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court to be a deputy judge of the High Court during such period or on such occasions as the Lord Chancellor thinks fit.
</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/2" id="section-24-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">If it appears to the Lord Chancellor that it is expedient as a temporary measure to make an appointment under this subsection in order to facilitate the disposal of business in the Crown Court or a county court he may appoint to be a deputy Circuit judge during such period or on such occasions as he thinks fit— </Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/2/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/2/a" id="section-24-2-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9419" CommentaryRef="c847763">a</Addition>
</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9419" CommentaryRef="c847763">any barrister or solicitor of at least ten years’ standing,</Addition>
</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/2/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/2/b" id="section-24-2-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">any person who has held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court or as a Circuit judge; or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/2/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/2/c" id="section-24-2-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">any person who, before the day appointed for the purposes of section 20 above, had retired from office as an official referee or judge of a county court.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/3" id="section-24-3">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">3</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">Except as provided by subsection (4) below, during the period or on the occasions for which a deputy judge is appointed under this section, he shall be treated for all purposes as, and accordingly may perform any of the functions of, a puisne judge of the High Court or a Circuit judge, as the case may be.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/4" id="section-24-4">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">4</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">A deputy judge appointed under this section shall not be treated as a judge of the High Court or Circuit judge for the purpose of any provision made by or under any enactment and relating to—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/4/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/4/a" id="section-24-4-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">the appointment, retirement, removal or disqualification of judges of the High Court or Circuit judges,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/4/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/4/b" id="section-24-4-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">the tenure of office and oaths to be taken by judges of the High Court or Circuit judges, or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/4/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/4/c" id="section-24-4-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">the remuneration, allowances or pensions of judges of the High Court or Circuit judges.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/5" id="section-24-5">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">5</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">Notwithstanding the expiry of any period for which a person is appointed under this section a deputy judge of the High Court or a deputy Circuit judge, he may attend at the High Court or, as the case may be, at the Crown Court or a county court, for the purpose of continuing to deal with, giving judgment in, or dealing with any ancillary matter relating to, any case which may have been begun before him when sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court or a deputy Circuit judge, and for that purpose and for the purpose of any proceedings subsequent thereon he shall be treated as a judge of the High Court or a Circuit judge, as the case may be.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/6" id="section-24-6">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">6</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9398" CommentaryRef="c847761">There shall be paid, out of money provided by Parliament, to deputy judges of the High Court and deputy Circuit judges appointed under this section such remuneration and allowances as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, determine.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="1995-03-31" RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764"> Deputy Circuit judges and assistant Recorders.</Addition>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24" id="section-24">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">24</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/1" id="section-24-1">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">1</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">If it appears to the Lord Chancellor that it is expedient as a temporary measure to make an appointment under this section in order to facilitate the disposal of business in the Crown Court or a county court or official referees’ business in the High Court, he may—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/1/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/1/a" id="section-24-1-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">appoint to be a deputy Circuit judge, during such period or on such occasions as he thinks fit, any person who has held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court or as a Circuit judge; or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/1/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/1/b" id="section-24-1-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">appoint to be an assistant Recorder, during such period or on such occasions as he thinks fit, </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9510" CommentaryRef="c847765">any person who has a 10 year Crown Court or 10 year county court qualification, within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990.</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/2" id="section-24-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">Except as provided by subsection (3) below, during the period or on the occasions for which a deputy Circuit judge or assistant Recorder is appointed under this section he shall be treated for all purposes as, and accordingly may perform any of the functions of, a Circuit judge or a Recorder, as the case may be.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/3" id="section-24-3">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">3</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">A deputy Circuit judge appointed under this section shall not be treated as a Circuit judge for the purpose of any provision made by or under any enactment and relating to the appointment, retirement, removal or disqualification of Circuit judges, the tenure of office and oaths, to be taken by such judges, or the remuneration, allowances or pensions of such judges; and section 21 of this Act shall not apply to an assistant Recorder appointed under this section.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/4" id="section-24-4">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">4</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">Notwithstanding the expiry of any period for which a person is appointed under this section a deputy Circuit judge or an assistant Recorder, he may attend at the Crown Court or a county court or, </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9532" CommentaryRef="c847766">in the case of a deputy Circuit judge, as regards</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764"> official referees’ business, at the High Court for the purpose of continuing to deal with, giving judgment in, or dealing with any ancillary matter relating to, any case which may have been begun before him when sitting as a deputy Circuit judge or an assistant Recorder, and for that purpose and for the purpose of any proceedings subsequent thereon he shall be treated as a Circuit judge or a Recorder, as the case may be.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/5" id="section-24-5">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">5</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9485" CommentaryRef="c847764">There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament to deputy Circuit judges and assistant Recorders appointed under this section such remuneration and allowances as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, determine.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771"> Official referees’ business.</Addition>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/25/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/25" id="section-25">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">25</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/25/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/25/1" id="section-25-1">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">1</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">After the appointed day no person shall be appointed to the office of official referee and on and after that day functions conferred on official referees by provisions of rules of the Supreme Court, or by any other provision, shall be discharged in accordance with the provisions of this section.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/25/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/25/2" id="section-25-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">Such of the Circuit judges as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time determine shall discharge the said functions conferred on official referees.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/25/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/25/3" id="section-25-3">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">3</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">The cases in which jurisdiction or powers of the High Court or a judge of the High Court may be exercised by official referees, whether by virtue of rules of court made under section 15 of the </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847772"/>
Administration of Justice Act 1956 or otherwise, shall be known as “
</Addition>
<Term id="term-official-referees-business">
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">official referees’ business</Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">”, and except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in any enactment, in rules of court or in any other document to an official referee shall, in accordance with this section, be construed as, or where the context requires as including, a reference to a Circuit judge discharging the functions of an official referee.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/25/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/25/4" id="section-25-4">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">4</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1778" CommentaryRef="c847771">Subject to rules of court, the distribution of official referees’ business, performed in accordance with this section, shall be determined in accordance with directions given by or on behalf of the Lord Chancellor.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Part>
<Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/part/IV/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/part/IV" NumberOfProvisions="5" RestrictExtent="E+W" id="part-IV" RestrictEndDate="2014-04-22">
<Number>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c2070142"/>
Part IV
</Number>
<Title> Officers and Accommodation</Title>
<P1group>
<Title>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773"> Masters and registrars to be appointed by Lord Chancellor.</Addition>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26" id="section-26">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">26</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1" id="section-26-1">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">1</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">On and after the appointed day the following officers shall be appointed by the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service as to numbers and salaries,—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/a" id="section-26-1-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">the masters, assistant masters and registrars specified in Part I of Schedule 3 to the </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847774"/>
Judicature Act 1925, other than the Master of the Court of Protection (for whose appointment by the Lord Chancellor provision is made by section 100 of the
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847775"/>
Mental Health Act 1959);
</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/b" id="section-26-1-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">the Queen’s coroner and attorney and master of the Crown Office;</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/c" id="section-26-1-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">the registrar, assistant registrars and deputy assistant registrars of criminal appeals;</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/d/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/d" id="section-26-1-d">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">d</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">the admiralty registrar;</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/e/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/e" id="section-26-1-e">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">e</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">chancery registrars and assistant chancery registrars; and</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/f/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/1/f" id="section-26-1-f">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">f</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">district probate registrars.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/2" id="section-26-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">The person appointed to the office of Queen’s coroner and attorney and master of the Crown Office shall, by virtue of his appointment, be a master of the Supreme Court (Queen’s Bench Division).</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/3" id="section-26-3">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847776"/>
3
</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">In section 122 of the Judicature Act 1925 (which relates to certain additional duties of the senior master of the Queen’s Bench Division) for the words “The senior master” there shall be subtituted the words “The Lord Chancellor shall appoint one of the masters” and after the word “Division)”there shall be inserted the words “to be the senior master and the person so appointed”.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26/4" id="section-26-4">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">4</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p1826" CommentaryRef="c847773">In section 128A of the Judicature Act 1925 (which relates to the office of district probate registrar) for any reference in subsection (2) or subsection (3) to the President of the family dvision thre shall be substituted a reference to the Lord Chancellor.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="1995-01-03">
<Title>
Administrative and other court staff.
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847777"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/27/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/27" id="section-27">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847778"/>
27
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text>The Lord Chancellor may, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service as to numbers and salaries, appoint such officers and other staff for the Supreme Court (including the district probate registries) and county courts as appear to him necessary—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/27/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/27/a" id="section-27-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>for setting up a unified administrative court service, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/27/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/27/b" id="section-27-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>for discharging any functions in those courts conferred by or under this or any other Act on officers so appointed, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/27/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/27/c" id="section-27-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>generally for carrying out the administrative work of those courts.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/27/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/27/2" id="section-27-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9858" CommentaryRef="c847779">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9858" CommentaryRef="c847779">The principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p9858" CommentaryRef="c847779">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847780"/>
Superannuation Act 1972 and for the time being in force shall, with the necessary adaptations, apply to such officers and staff as it applies to other persons employed in the civil service of the State.
</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="1998-01-26">
<Title> Provision of accommodation.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/28" id="section-28">
<Pnumber>28</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/1" id="section-28-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Secretary of State for the Environment may with the approval of the Treasury provide, equip, maintain and manage such courts, offices, buildings, judges’ lodgings and other accommodation as may be necessary or desirable for carrying on the business of the Supreme Court and county courts.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/2" id="section-28-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>It is hereby declared that the expression “land necessary for the public service” in—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/2/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/2/a" id="section-28-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
section 2 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847783"/>
Commissioners of Works Act 1852 (acquisition by agreement), and
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/2/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/2/b" id="section-28-2-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10191" CommentaryRef="c847784">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10191" CommentaryRef="c847784">section 228(1) of the </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10191" CommentaryRef="c847784">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847785"/>
Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (power of Secretary of State to acquire compulsorily land necessary for the public service)
</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>includes any land which is required to discharge the duties of the said Secretary of State under this section.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/3" id="section-28-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Secretary of State for the Environment may, if he thinks fit, in discharging his duties under this section enter into arrangements with a local or other public authority for the provision of accommodation to be used in part for the purposes set out in this section, and in part for other purposes, including in particular the sittings of a magistrates’ court.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/4" id="section-28-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect as respects premises formerly used for business of the abolished courts, and judges’ lodgings.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="2003-08-19">
<Title> Accommodation in City of London.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/29/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/29" id="section-29">
<Pnumber>29</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/29/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/29/1" id="section-29-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
The courthouse and accommodation which up to the appointed day have been respectively known as the Central Criminal Court and the Mayor’s and City of London Court shall continue to be known by those names, and it shall be the duty of the Common Council of the City of London (in this section referred to as “
<Term id="term-the-common-council">the Common Council</Term>
”) to continue to make the said premises available for use for the sittings and business of those courts respectively.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/29/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/29/2" id="section-29-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Common Council shall not undertake any alteration or extension of the buildings or accommodation which they are to make available for the purpose of the said courts, or provide further accommodation for that purpose, without the consent of the Lord Chancellor.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/29/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/29/3" id="section-29-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The duties imposed by this section on the Common Council may at any time be varied, restricted or terminated by agreement between the Lord Chancellor and the Common Council.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="2003-08-19">
<Title> Advisory committees.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/30/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/30" id="section-30">
<Pnumber>30</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text>The Lord Chancellor may constitute, on a permanent or temporary basis, one or more advisory committees to advise him on such questions relating to the Supreme Court and county courts as he may from time to time refer to them, and shall appoint the members of any such committee with regard to their knowledge of the work of the courts and social conditions.</Text>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Part>
<Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/part/V/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/part/V" NumberOfProvisions="1" RestrictExtent="E+W" id="part-V">
<Number>Part V</Number>
<P1group>
<Title>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847801"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/31/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/31" id="section-31">
<Pnumber PuncAfter="—40.">31</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text/>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Part>
<Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI" NumberOfProvisions="17" id="part-VI" RestrictEndDate="2011-04-06">
<Number>Part VI</Number>
<Title> Miscellaneous and Supplemental</Title>
<Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI/crossheading/merger-or-abolition-of-certain-courts-and-offices/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI/crossheading/merger-or-abolition-of-certain-courts-and-offices" NumberOfProvisions="6" id="part-VI-crossheading-merger-or-abolition-of-certain-courts-and-offices" RestrictEndDate="2014-04-22">
<Title> Merger or abolition of certain courts and offices</Title>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="2004-07-22">
<Title> Merger of Palatine Courts with High Court.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/41/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/41" id="section-41">
<Pnumber>41</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/41/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/41/1" id="section-41-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>On the appointed day—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/41/1/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/41/1/a" id="section-41-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
the Court of Chancery of the county palatine of Lancaster (in this Act referred to as “
<Term id="term-the-lancaster-palatine-court">the Lancaster Palatine Court</Term>
”), and
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/41/1/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/41/1/b" id="section-41-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
the Court of Chancery of the county palatine of Durham and Sadberge (in this Act referred to as “
<Term id="term-the-durham-palatine-court">the Durham Palatine Court</Term>
”),
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>shall be merged with the High Court and accordingly on and after that day no jurisdiction, whether conferred by statute or otherwise, shall be exercised by the Palatine Courts as such.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/41/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/41/2" id="section-41-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The provisions of Part I of Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect with respect to certain transitional matters consequential on the provisions of this section.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="2004-07-22">
<Title> Local court for City of London.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/42/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/42" id="section-42">
<Pnumber>42</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/42/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/42/1" id="section-42-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Mayor’s and City of London Court, as constituted immediately before the commencement of this Act, is hereby abolished.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/42/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/42/2" id="section-42-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>For the purpose of establishing a court to exercise so much of the jurisdiction previously exercised by the Mayor’s and City of London Court as is appropriate to a county court and for exercising any other jurisdiction which may hereafter be conferred on a county court, the City of London shall, by virtue of this section, become a county court district and accordingly the enactments relating to county courts shall apply in relation to the county court for the City of London as they apply in relation to a county court for any other county court district.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/42/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/42/3" id="section-42-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Without prejudice to subsection (1) above, the county court for the district constituted by subsection (2) above shall be known as the Mayor’s and City of London Court and the Circuit judge assigned to that district under section 20(1) of this Act shall be known as the judge of the Mayor’s and City of London Court.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/42/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/42/4" id="section-42-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The provisions of Part II of Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect with respect to certain transitional matters consequential on the provisions of this section.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="2004-07-22">
<Title> Abolition of certain other local courts.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/43" id="section-43">
<Pnumber>43</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/1" id="section-43-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>There are hereby abolished the following local courts of record, being those which actively exercise a civil jurisdiction comparable to or greater than that of the county court for the district in which they are situated:—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/1/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/1/a" id="section-43-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the Tolzey and Pie Poudre Courts of the City and County of Bristol;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/1/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/1/b" id="section-43-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the Liverpool Court of Passage;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/1/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/1/c" id="section-43-1-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the Norwich Guildhall Court; and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/1/d/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/1/d" id="section-43-1-d">
<Pnumber>d</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the Court of Record for the Hundred of Salford.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/43/2" id="section-43-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The provisions of Part III of Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect with respect to certain transitional matters consequential on the abolition of the courts specified in subsection (1) above.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title> Abolition of certain offices.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44" id="section-44">
<Pnumber>44</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/1" id="section-44-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The following offices are hereby abolished:—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/1/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/1/a" id="section-44-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>chairman and deputy chairman of county quarter sessions; recorder, and deputy, assistant or temporary recorder, of a borough (but not the Recorder of London); clerk and deputy clerk of the peace;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/1/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/1/b" id="section-44-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any judicial or other office in a court abolished or merged with the High Court by the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act, other than the office of Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/1/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/1/c" id="section-44-1-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>clerk of assize, circuit bailiff and any other office the duties of which relate exclusively to courts of assize.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/2" id="section-44-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Lord Chancellor may, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service, by regulations provide for the payment out of money provided by Parliament of compensation to or in respect of persons who suffer loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments which is attributable—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/2/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/2/a" id="section-44-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>to the preceding provisions of this section, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/2/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/2/b" id="section-44-2-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>to the abolition or merger of any court (including courts of assize, courts of quarter sessions and Palatine courts) by this Act, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/2/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/2/c" id="section-44-2-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>to the transfer by this Act of any function to the Lord Chancellor or to any other Minister.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/3" id="section-44-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Regulations under this section may—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/3/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/3/a" id="section-44-3-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>include provision as to the manner in which and the person to whom any claim for compensation under the regulations is to be made, and for the determination of all questions arising under the regulations,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/3/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/3/b" id="section-44-3-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>make special provision for persons who, but for any national service, would be holders of any office or engaged in any employment,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/3/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/3/c" id="section-44-3-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>make different provision for different classes of persons and for other different circumstances, and make, or authorise the Lord Chancellor to make, exceptions and conditions,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/3/d/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/3/d" id="section-44-3-d">
<Pnumber>d</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>be framed so as to have effect from a date earlier than the making of the regulations,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>but so that regulations having effect from a date earlier than their making shall not place any individual in a worse position than he would have been in if the regulations had been so framed as to have effect only from the date of their making.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/44/4" id="section-44-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847802"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/45/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/45" id="section-45">
<Pnumber>45</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text/>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847803"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/46/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/46" id="section-46">
<Pnumber>46</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text/>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Pblock>
<Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI/crossheading/costs/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI/crossheading/costs" NumberOfProvisions="4" RestrictExtent="E+W" id="part-VI-crossheading-costs" RestrictEndDate="2011-04-06">
<Title> Costs</Title>
<P1group>
<Title>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847804"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/47/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/47" id="section-47">
<Pnumber PuncAfter="—49.">47</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text/>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847805"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/50/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/50" id="section-50">
<Pnumber>50</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text/>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title> Construction and consequential amendments</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/51/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/51" id="section-51">
<Pnumber>51</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/51/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/51/1" id="section-51-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847806"/>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/51/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/51/2" id="section-51-2">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847807"/>
2
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Schedule 6 to this Act, which amends enactments about costs, shall have effect.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="2005-04-01">
<Title> Award of costs where information or complaint is not proceeded with.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/52/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/52" id="section-52">
<Pnumber>52</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/52/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/52/1" id="section-52-1">
<Pnumber PuncAfter="), (2)">1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847808"/>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/52/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/52/3" id="section-52-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/52/3/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/52/3/a" id="section-52-3-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847809"/>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/52/3/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/52/3/b" id="section-52-3-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>a complaint is made to a justice of the peace acting for any area but the complaint is not proceeded with,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
a magistrates’ court for that area may make such order as to costs to be paid . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847810"/>
, by the complainant to the defendant as it thinks just and reasonable.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/52/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/52/4" id="section-52-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>An order under subsection (3) above shall specify the amount of the costs ordered to be paid.</Text>
</P2para>
<P2para>
<Text>
(5) . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847810"/>
for the purpose of enforcement an order under subsection (3) above made in relation to a complaint which is not proceeded with shall be treated as if it were an order made under
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10692" CommentaryRef="c847812">section 64 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980</Addition>
(power to award, and enforcement of, costs in civil proceedings).
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Pblock>
<Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI/crossheading/administrative-functions-of-justices/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI/crossheading/administrative-functions-of-justices" NumberOfProvisions="1" RestrictExtent="E+W" id="part-VI-crossheading-administrative-functions-of-justices">
<Title> Administrative functions of justices</Title>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="1994-02-05">
<Title> Administrative functions of justices.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53" id="section-53">
<Pnumber>53</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/1" id="section-53-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847813"/>
the following provisions of this section shall have effect with respect to certain administrative functions exercised by courts of quarter sessions and by members of such courts before the day appointed for the purposes of section 3 of this Act.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/2" id="section-53-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/2/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/2/a" id="section-53-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847814"/>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/2/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/2/b" id="section-53-2-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847815"/>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/3" id="section-53-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Visiting committees appointed as mentioned in subsection (1) of section 6 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847816"/>
Prison Act 1952 (that is to say by courts of quarter sessions for counties and benches of magistrates for boroughs) shall be replaced by boards of visitors appointed under subsection (2) of that section, and accordingly the said section 6 and section 43(4) of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847817"/>
Prison Act 1952 (which relates to the application of certain provisions of that Act about prisons to remand centres, detention centres and Borstal institutions) shall be amended in accordance with Part II of Schedule 7 to this Act.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/4" id="section-53-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
For the purpose of replacing the references to courts of quarter sessions where they occur in the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847818"/>
Licensing Act 1964 in relation to—
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/4/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/4/a" id="section-53-4-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847819"/>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/4/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/4/b" id="section-53-4-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the licensing planning committee for any licensing planning area that consists of or includes the metropolis, as defined in that Act,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>the provisions of that Act specified in Part III of Schedule 7 to this Act shall be amended in accordance with that Part of that Schedule.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/5" id="section-53-5">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847820"/>
5
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In paragraph (b) of section 2(2) of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847821"/>
Police Act 1964 (one-third of police committee for a county police area to be magistrates for the county appointed by quarter sessions) for the words from “magistrates” in the first place where it occurs to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted the words “appointed from among their own number by the magistrates for the county in accordance with a scheme made by the magistrates’ courts committee for, or for an area including, the county and approved by the Secretary of State”.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/6" id="section-53-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Without prejudice to their effect on appointments made after the commencement of this Act, nothing in subsection (2), subsection (4) or subsection (5) above shall affect the membership of any probation and after-care committee, county compensation authority or police committee in existence at the commencement of this Act.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/7/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/7" id="section-53-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument make such amendments as appear to him to be expedient in consequence of the provisions of this Act in—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/7/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/7/a" id="section-53-7-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
any order
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10791" CommentaryRef="c847822">deemed to be made under paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d30p10791" CommentaryRef="c847822">
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847823"/>
Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973
</Addition>
(relating to combined probation and after-care areas), and
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/7/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/7/b" id="section-53-7-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
any amalgamation scheme within the meaning of Part I of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847824"/>
Police Act 1964;
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>and an order under this subsection amending any such amalgamation scheme shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Pblock>
<Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI/crossheading/boroughs-honorary-offices/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI/crossheading/boroughs-honorary-offices" NumberOfProvisions="1" RestrictExtent="E+W" id="part-VI-crossheading-boroughs-honorary-offices">
<Title> Boroughs: honorary offices</Title>
<P1group>
<Title> Boroughs: honorary offices.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/54" id="section-54">
<Pnumber>54</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/1" id="section-54-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The council of a borough shall have power to appoint a person to be honorary recorder of the borough.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/2" id="section-54-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847851"/>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/3" id="section-54-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
A person shall not be qualified to hold office as an honorary recorder of a borough . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847852"/>
unless he is a Circuit judge or Recorder (that is to say a Recorder appointed under this Act):
</Text>
<BlockText>
<Text>Provided that this subsection shall not apply to a borough which immediately before the appointed day—</Text>
</BlockText>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/3/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/3/a" id="section-54-3-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>had power by charter to appoint a recorder of the borough, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/3/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/3/b" id="section-54-3-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>did not have a separate court of quarter sessions.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/4" id="section-54-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847851"/>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Pblock>
<Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI/crossheading/supplemental/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/part/VI/crossheading/supplemental" NumberOfProvisions="5" id="part-VI-crossheading-supplemental">
<Title> Supplemental</Title>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="2004-07-22">
<Title> Financial provisions.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/55" id="section-55">
<Pnumber>55</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/1" id="section-55-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament, or out of the Consolidated Fund, any increase attributable to the provisions of this Act in the sums respectively so payable under any other enactment.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/2" id="section-55-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any sums payable by any Minister under or by virtue of this Act.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/3" id="section-55-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any sum payable under this Act to the Lord Chancellor or any other Minister shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/4" id="section-55-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In the application of section 3(1) of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847854"/>
Local Government Act 1966 (variation of rate support grant orders) to a rate support grant order made before the date of the coming into operation of any provision of this Act for a grant period ending after that date, the Minister having power to make orders under the said section 3 shall take into account any relief obtained, or likely to be obtained, by local authorities—
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/4/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/4/a" id="section-55-4-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>which is attributable to the coming into operation of the said provision of this Act, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/4/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/55/4/b" id="section-55-4-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>which was not taken into account in making the rate support grant order the variation of which is in question.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>The provisions of this subsection are without prejudice to section 3(4) of the said Act of 1966 (under which an order under that section may vary the matters prescribed by a rate support grant order).</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title> Minor and consequential amendments, transitional provisions and repeals.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/56/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/56" id="section-56">
<Pnumber>56</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/56/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/56/1" id="section-56-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Schedule 8 to this Act (which contains consequential and other amendments) shall have effect.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/56/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/56/2" id="section-56-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In the enactments listed in Schedule 9 to this Act (which confer jurisdiction transferred to the Crown Court) for any reference to quarter sessions there shall be substituted a reference to the Crown Court.</Text>
</P2para>
<P2para>
<Text>
This subsection applies to references to quarter sessions however expressed and in particular to any reference to “the next court of quarter sessions”, or to the quarter sessions for any particular area, or to any sessions which, by section 13(14) of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847855"/>
Interpretation Act 1889, were included in the expression “court of quarter sessions”.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/56/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/56/3" id="section-56-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Schedule 10 to this Act, which contains transitional provisions, shall have effect.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/56/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/56/4" id="section-56-4">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847856"/>
4
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The enactments specified in Schedule 11 to this Act (which includes certain obsolete or unnecessary enactments) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, but subject to any proviso at the end of that Schedule.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title> Interpretation of this Act and rules of construction of other Acts.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57" id="section-57">
<Pnumber>57</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/1" id="section-57-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—</Text>
<UnorderedList Decoration="none" Class="Definition">
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
the “
<Term id="term-appointed-day">appointed day</Term>
” means the commencement of this Act which, as provided by this Act, may be a different date for different purposes,
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847857"/>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-sentence">sentence</Term>
”, in relation to an offence, includes any order made by a court when dealing with an offender including—
</Text>
</Para>
<OrderedList Type="alpha" Decoration="parens">
<ListItem NumberOverride="a">
<Para>
<Text>
a hospital order under
<Addition ChangeId="d30p2467" CommentaryRef="c847858">Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983</Addition>
, with or without an order restricting discharge, and
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem NumberOverride="b">
<Para>
<Text>a recommendation for deportation made when dealing with an offender.</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</OrderedList>
</ListItem>
</UnorderedList>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/2" id="section-57-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847859"/>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/3" id="section-57-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Except where the context otherwise requires, in this or any other Act—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/3/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/3/a" id="section-57-3-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847860"/>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/3/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/3/b" id="section-57-3-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any reference to the courts abolished by this Act shall include a reference to the Lancaster Palatine Court and the Durham Palatine Court (which are abolished on merger with the High Court).</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/4" id="section-57-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Except where the context otherwise requires, in any Act passed after this Act the expression “recorder” shall not include the Recorder of London or an honorary recorder of a borough.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/5" id="section-57-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any power of making orders contained in any provision of this Act shall include power to vary or revoke an order made under that provision.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/6" id="section-57-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>It is hereby declared that any power conferred by this Act on the Lord Chancellor or any other authority to give directions includes a power to vary or rescind any direction so given.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/7/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/7" id="section-57-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any reference in this Act to any other enactment is a reference thereto as amended, and includes a reference thereto as extended or applied, by or under any other enactment, including this Act.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W">
<Title>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847861"/>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/58/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/58" id="section-58">
<Pnumber>58</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text/>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." RestrictEndDate="2004-07-22">
<Title> Short title, commencement and extent.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59" id="section-59">
<Pnumber>59</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/1/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/1" id="section-59-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>This Act may be cited as the Courts Act 1971.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/2/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/2" id="section-59-2">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847862"/>
2
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>This Act shall come into force on such date as the Lord Chancellor may by order in a statutory instrument appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, or for different purposes.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/3/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/3" id="section-59-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Without prejudice to the other transitory provisions of this Act, any order under this section may make such transitional provision as appears to the Lord Chancellor to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions thereby brought into force, including such adaptations of those provisions or any provisions of this Act then in force, and such savings of the provisions repealed by this Act, as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the partial operation of this Act (whether before or after the day appointed by the order).</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/4/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/4" id="section-59-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A statutory instrument made under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5" id="section-59-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The following provisions of this Act, and no others, shall extend to Scotland—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/a" id="section-59-5-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>section 13(8) and, so far as it relates to the Court of Session, section 46,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/b" id="section-59-5-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847863"/>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/c" id="section-59-5-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any provision of this Act affecting the operation of the law of Scotland in relation to courts in England and Wales,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/d/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/d" id="section-59-5-d">
<Pnumber>d</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the provisions of this Act about interpretation and commencement,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/e/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/e" id="section-59-5-e">
<Pnumber>e</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
Schedule 8 to this Act so far as it amends section 14 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847864"/>
Indictable Offences Act 1848, . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847865"/>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6" id="section-59-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The following provisions of this Act, and no others, shall extend to Northern Ireland—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/a/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/a" id="section-59-6-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
section 46 of this Act except so far as it relates to the Court of Session . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847866"/>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/b/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/b" id="section-59-6-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847867"/>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/c/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/c" id="section-59-6-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any provision of this Act affecting the operation of the law of Northern Ireland in relation to courts in England and Wales,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/d/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/d" id="section-59-6-d">
<Pnumber>d</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the provisions of this Act about interpretation and commencement,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/e/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/e" id="section-59-6-e">
<Pnumber>e</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
Schedule 8 to this Act so far as it amends section 12 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847868"/>
Indictable Offences Act 1848 and section 30 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847869"/>
Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851.
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/7/1991-02-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/7" id="section-59-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Schedule 8 to this Act shall extend to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands so far as it amends section 13 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c847870"/>
Indictable Offences Act 1848.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Pblock>
</Part>
</Body>
</Primary>
<Commentaries>
<Commentary id="c2070142" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00357" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/part/4" SectionRef="part-4">Pt. 4</CitationSubRef>
functions tranferred (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887" id="c00358" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2003" Number="1887">S.I. 2003/1887</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00359" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/1/2" CitationRef="c00358" SectionRef="article-1-2">arts. 1(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00360" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/4" CitationRef="c00358" SectionRef="article-4">4</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00361" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/schedule/1" CitationRef="c00358" SectionRef="schedule-1" Operative="true">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847701" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Pts. I, II (ss. 1–15) repealed (E.W.) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54" id="c00010" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Supreme Court Act 1981">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00010" id="c00011" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4" SectionRef="section-152-4">s. 152(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00010" id="c00012" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-7">Sch. 7</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847720" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63" id="c00067" Year="1976" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="63" Title="Bail Act 1976">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00067" id="c00068" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/2/paragraph/48/1/2" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-2-paragraph-48-1-2">Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847722" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00069" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/3" SectionRef="section-13-3">S. 13(3)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63" id="c00070" Year="1976" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="63" Title="Bail Act 1976">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00070" id="c00071" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/3" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-3">Sch. 3</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847723" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63" id="c00072" Year="1976" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="63" Title="Bail Act 1976">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00072" id="c00073" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/2/paragraph/48/1/3" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-2-paragraph-48-1-3">Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847725" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00074" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/a" SectionRef="section-13-5-a">S. 13(5)(a)</CitationSubRef>
substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63" id="c00075" Year="1976" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="63" Title="Bail Act 1976">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00075" id="c00076" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/2/paragraph/48/1/4" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-2-paragraph-48-1-4">Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(4)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847726" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1952/55" id="c00077" Year="1952" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="55">1952 c. 55</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847727" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Proviso added by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63" id="c00078" Year="1976" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="63" Title="Bail Act 1976">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00078" id="c00079" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/2/paragraph/48/1/5" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-2-paragraph-48-1-5">Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(5)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847728" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1881/24" id="c00080" Year="1881" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="24">1881 c. 24</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847729" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1952/55" id="c00081" Year="1952" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="55">1952 c. 55</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847730" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00082" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/10" SectionRef="section-13-10">S. 13(10)</CitationSubRef>
added by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63" id="c00083" Year="1976" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="63" Title="Bail Act 1976">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00083" id="c00084" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/2/paragraph/48/1/6" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-2-paragraph-48-1-6">Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(6)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847731" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63" id="c00085" Year="1976" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="63">1976 c. 63</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847734" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00094" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/3/a" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/3/c" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-16-3-a" EndSectionRef="section-16-3-c">S. 16(3)(a)–(c)</CitationSubRef>
substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41" id="c00095" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="41" Title="Courts and Legal Services Act 1990">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00096" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/71/2" CitationRef="c00095" SectionRef="section-71-2">s. 71(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00097" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/10/paragraph/31/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00095" SectionRef="schedule-10-paragraph-31-1">Sch. 10 para. 31(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847735" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00107" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/16/3/c" SectionRef="section-16-3-c">S. 16(3)(c)</CitationSubRef>
modified by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41" id="c00108" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="41" Title="Courts and Legal Services Act 1990">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37, 76:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00109" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/6" CitationRef="c00108" SectionRef="section-125-6">s. 125(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00110" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/19/paragraph/5" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00108" SectionRef="schedule-19-paragraph-5">Sch. 19 para. 5</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847736" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01107" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/5" SectionRef="section-17-5">S. 17(5)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24" id="c01108" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="24" Title="House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975">House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01109" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24/schedule/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01108" SectionRef="schedule-3">Sch. 3</CitationSubRef>
and
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/25" id="c01110" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="25" Title="Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975">Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 25)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01111" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/25/schedule/3/part/I" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01110" SectionRef="schedule-3-part-I">Sch. 3 Pt. I</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847737" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01112" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/6" SectionRef="section-17-6">S. 17(6)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41" id="c01113" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="41" Title="Courts and Legal Services Act 1990">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01114" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/7" CitationRef="c01113" SectionRef="section-125-7">s. 125(7)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01115" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/20" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01113" SectionRef="schedule-20">Sch. 20</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary xmlns:leg="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" id="c847743" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00141" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18" SectionRef="section-18">S. 18</CitationSubRef>
modified (9.11.1998) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/42" id="c00142" Year="1998" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42">1998 c. 42</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00142" id="c00143" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/42/section/18/4/d" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-18-4-d">s. 18(4)(d)</CitationSubRef>
(with
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00142" id="c00144" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/42/section/7/8" SectionRef="section-7-8">ss. 7(8)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00142" id="c00145" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/42/section/22/5" SectionRef="section-22-5">22(5)</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00146" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18" SectionRef="section-18">S. 18</CitationSubRef>
modified (27.9.1999) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22" id="c00147" Year="1999" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="22">1999 c. 22</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00147" id="c00148" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22/section/68/3/a" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-68-3-a">ss. 68(3)(a)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00147" id="c00149" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22/section/108/3/b" SectionRef="section-108-3-b">108(3)(b)</CitationSubRef>
(with
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00147" id="c00150" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22/schedule/14/paragraph/7/2" SectionRef="schedule-14-paragraph-7-2">Sch. 14 para. 7(2)</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary xmlns:leg="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" id="c847744" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00151" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/3" SectionRef="section-18-3">S. 18(3)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41" id="c00152" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="41" Title="Courts and Legal Services Act 1990">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37, 76:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00152" id="c00153" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/84/c" SectionRef="section-84-c">ss. 84(c)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00152" id="c00154" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/7" SectionRef="section-125-7">125(7)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00152" id="c00155" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/20" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-20">Sch. 20</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary xmlns:leg="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" id="c847745" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00156" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/4" SectionRef="section-18-4">S. 18(4)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41" id="c00157" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="41" Title="Courts and Legal Services Act 1990">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00157" id="c00158" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/7" SectionRef="section-125-7">s. 125(7)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00157" id="c00159" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/20" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-20">Sch. 20</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary xmlns:leg="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" id="c847746" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1967/28" id="c00160" Year="1967" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="28">1967 c. 28</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847747" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00161" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/1" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/4" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-19-1" EndSectionRef="section-19-4">S. 19(1)–(4)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20" id="c00162" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="20" Title="Judicial Pensions Act 1981">Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00162" id="c00163" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/section/36/2" SectionRef="section-36-2">s. 36(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00162" id="c00164" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/schedule/4" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-4">Sch. 4</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847748" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00165" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/5" SectionRef="section-19-5">S. 19(5)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41" id="c00166" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="41" Title="Courts and Legal Services Act 1990">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37, 76:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00166" id="c00167" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/7" SectionRef="section-125-7">s. 125(7)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00166" id="c00168" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/20" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-20">Sch. 20</CitationSubRef>
(subject to a saving in
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00166" id="c00169" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/6" SectionRef="section-125-6">s. 125(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00166" id="c00170" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/19/paragraph/10/3" SectionRef="schedule-19-paragraph-10-3">Sch. 19 para. 10(3)</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847749" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00171" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/6" SectionRef="section-19-6">S. 19(6)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20" id="c00172" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="20" Title="Judicial Pensions Act 1981">Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00172" id="c00173" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/section/36/2" SectionRef="section-36-2">s. 36(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00172" id="c00174" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/schedule/4" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-4">Sch. 4</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847750" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00175" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7" SectionRef="section-19-7">S. 19(7)</CitationSubRef>
paragraphs (
<Emphasis>b</Emphasis>
) and (
<Emphasis>c</Emphasis>
) repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20" id="c00176" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="20" Title="Judicial Pensions Act 1981">Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00176" id="c00177" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/section/36/2" SectionRef="section-36-2">s. 36(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="c00176" id="c00178" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/schedule/4" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-4">Sch. 4</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847751" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00179" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/1" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/20/4" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-20-1" EndSectionRef="section-20-4">S. 20(1)–(4)</CitationSubRef>
repealed (E.W.) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/28" id="c00180" Year="1984" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="28" Title="County Courts Act 1984">County Courts Act 1984 (c. 28, SIF 34)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00181" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/28/section/148/3" CitationRef="c00180" SectionRef="section-148-3">s. 148(3)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00182" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/28/schedule/4" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00180" SectionRef="schedule-4">Sch. 4</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847752" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1959/22" id="c00183" Year="1959" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="22">1959 c. 22</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847753" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1959/22" id="c01116" Year="1959" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="22">1959 c. 22</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847754" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1959/22" id="c01117" Year="1959" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="22">1959 c. 22</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847755" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41" id="c01118" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="41" Title="Courts and Legal Services Act 1990">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01119" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/71/2" CitationRef="c01118" SectionRef="section-71-2">s. 71(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01120" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/10/paragraph/32/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01118" SectionRef="schedule-10-paragraph-32-1">Sch. 10 para. 32(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847758" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1868/72" id="c00218" Year="1868" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="72">1868 c. 72</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847759" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1871/48" id="c00219" Year="1871" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="48">1871 c. 48</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847760" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00236" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/23" SectionRef="section-23">S. 23</CitationSubRef>
repealed (E.W.) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54" id="c00237" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Supreme Courts Act 1981">Supreme Courts Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00238" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4" CitationRef="c00237" SectionRef="section-152-4">s. 152(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00239" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00237" SectionRef="schedule-7">Sch. 7</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847761" Type="X">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01124" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24" SectionRef="section-24">S. 24</CitationSubRef>
with subsections (1)–(5) substituted (E.W.) for s. 24 with subsections (1)–(6) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54" id="c01125" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Supreme Court Act 1981">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01126" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/146" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01125" SectionRef="section-146">s. 146</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847762" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1925/49" id="c01127" Year="1925" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49">1925 c. 49</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847763" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01128" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/2/a" SectionRef="section-24-2-a">S. 24(2)(a)</CitationSubRef>
substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/15" id="c01129" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="15" Title="Administration of Justice Act 1973">Administration of Justice Act 1973 (c. 15)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01130" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/15/section/15" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01129" SectionRef="section-15">s. 15</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847764" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01131" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24" SectionRef="section-24">S. 24</CitationSubRef>
with subsections (1)–(5) substituted (E.W.) for s. 24 with subsections (1)–(6) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54" id="c01132" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Supreme Court Act 1981">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01133" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/146" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01132" SectionRef="section-146">s. 146</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847765" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41" id="c01134" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="41" Title="Courts and Legal Services Act 1990">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01135" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/71/2" CitationRef="c01134" SectionRef="section-71-2">s. 71(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01136" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/10/paragraph/32/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01134" SectionRef="schedule-10-paragraph-32-2">Sch. 10 para. 32(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847766" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/53" id="c01137" Year="1982" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="53" Title="Administration of Justice Act 1982">Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c. 53, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01138" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/53/section/59/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01137" SectionRef="section-59-3">s. 59(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847771" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00303" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/25" SectionRef="section-25">Ss. 25</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00304" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26" SectionRef="section-26">26</CitationSubRef>
repealed (E.W.) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54" id="c00305" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Supreme Court Act 1981">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00306" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4" CitationRef="c00305" SectionRef="section-152-4">s. 152(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00307" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00305" SectionRef="schedule-7">Sch. 7</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847772" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1956/46" id="c00308" Year="1956" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="46">1956 c. 46</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847773" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00309" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/25" SectionRef="section-25">Ss. 25</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26" SectionRef="section-26">26</CitationSubRef>
repealed (E.W.) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54" id="c00311" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Supreme Court Act 1981">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00312" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4" CitationRef="c00311" SectionRef="section-152-4">s. 152(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00313" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00311" SectionRef="schedule-7">Sch. 7</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847774" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1925/49" id="c00314" Year="1925" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49">1925 c. 49</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847775" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1959/72" id="c00315" Year="1959" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="72">1959 c. 72</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847776" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>The text of ss. 26(3)(4), 51(2), 53(5) and 56(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847777" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01161" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/27" SectionRef="section-27">S. 27</CitationSubRef>
extended by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/9" id="c01162" Year="1970" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="9" Title="Taxes Management Act 1970">Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9, SIF 63:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01163" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/9/section/4/7" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01162" SectionRef="section-4-7">s. 4(7)</CitationSubRef>
(as inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/43" id="c01164" Year="1984" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="43" Title="Finance Act 1984">Finance Act 1984 (c. 43, SIF 63:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01165" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/43/section/127/1" CitationRef="c01164" SectionRef="section-127-1">s. 127(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01166" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/43/schedule/22/paragraph/1" CitationRef="c01164" SectionRef="schedule-22-paragraph-1">Sch. 22 paras. 1</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01167" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/43/schedule/22/paragraph/8" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01164" SectionRef="schedule-22-paragraph-8">8</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847778" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01168" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/27" SectionRef="section-27">S. 27</CitationSubRef>
extended by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/54" id="c01169" Year="1985" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Finance Act 1985">Finance Act 1985 (c. 54, SIF 40:2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01170" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/54/section/30" CitationRef="c01169" SectionRef="section-30">s. 30</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01171" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1985/54/schedule/8/paragraph/6/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01169" SectionRef="schedule-8-paragraph-6-1">Sch. 8 para. 6(1)</CitationSubRef>
.
</Text>
</Para>
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01172" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/27" SectionRef="section-27">S. 27</CitationSubRef>
extended (1.9.1994) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/23" id="c01173" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="23">1994 c. 23</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01174" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/23/section/82/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01173" SectionRef="section-82-3">ss. 82(3)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01175" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/23/section/101/1" CitationRef="c01173" SectionRef="section-101-1">101(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847779" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01176" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/27/2" SectionRef="section-27-2">S. 27(2)</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/11" id="c01177" Year="1972" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="11" Title="Superannuation Act 1972">Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01178" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/11/schedule/6/paragraph/80" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01177" SectionRef="schedule-6-paragraph-80">Sch. 6 para. 80</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847780" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/11" id="c01179" Year="1972" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="11">1972 c. 11</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847783" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1852/28" id="c01189" Year="1852" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="28">1852 c. 28</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847784" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01190" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/2" SectionRef="section-28-2">S. 28(2)</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>b</Emphasis>
) substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/11" id="c01191" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="11" Title="Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990">Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01192" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/11/section/4" CitationRef="c01191" SectionRef="section-4">s. 4</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01193" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/11/schedule/2/paragraph/25" CitationRef="c01191" SectionRef="schedule-2-paragraph-25">Sch. 2 para. 25</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01194" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/11/schedule/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01191" SectionRef="schedule-3">Sch. 3</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847785" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/8" id="c01195" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="8">1990 c.8</Citation>
(
<Strong>123:1</Strong>
).
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847801" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00362" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/31" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/40" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-31" EndSectionRef="section-40">Ss. 31–40</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/23" id="c00363" Year="1974" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="23" Title="Juries Act 1974">Juries Act 1974 (c. 23)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00364" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/23/schedule/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00363" SectionRef="schedule-3">Sch. 3</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847802" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00377" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/45" SectionRef="section-45">S. 45</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/42" id="c00378" Year="1984" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984">Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c. 42, SIF 49:3)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00379" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/42/section/46/3" CitationRef="c00378" SectionRef="section-46-3">s. 46(3)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00380" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/42/schedule/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00378" SectionRef="schedule-3">Sch. 3</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847803" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00381" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/46" SectionRef="section-46">S. 46</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/37" id="c00382" Year="1977" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="37" Title="Patents Act 1977">Patents Act 1977 (c. 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00383" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/37/schedule/6" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00382" SectionRef="schedule-6">Sch. 6</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847804" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00384" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/47" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/49" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-47" EndSectionRef="section-49">Ss. 47–49</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00385" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/51/1" SectionRef="section-51-1">51(1)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by Costs in
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14" id="c00386" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="14" Title="Criminal Cases Act 1973">Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00387" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14/schedule/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00386" SectionRef="schedule-2">Sch. 2</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847805" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00388" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/50" SectionRef="section-50">S. 50</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54" id="c00389" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Supreme Court Act 1981">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00390" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4" CitationRef="c00389" SectionRef="section-152-4">s. 152(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00391" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00389" SectionRef="schedule-7">Sch. 7</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847806" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00392" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/47" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/49" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-47" EndSectionRef="section-49">Ss. 47–49</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00393" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/51/1" SectionRef="section-51-1">51(1)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by Costs in
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14" id="c00394" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="14" Title="Criminal Cases Act 1973">Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00395" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14/schedule/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00394" SectionRef="schedule-2">Sch. 2</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847807" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>The text of ss. 26(3)(4), 51(2), 53(5) and 56(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847808" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
S. 52(1)(2) repealed by Costs in
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14" id="c00397" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="14" Title="Criminal Cases Act 1973">Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00398" CitationRef="c00397" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14/schedule/2" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-2">Sch. 2</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847809" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
S. 52(3)(a) repealed by Costs in
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14" id="c00400" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="14" Title="Criminal Cases Act 1973">Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00401" CitationRef="c00400" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14/schedule/2" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-2">Sch. 2</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847810" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words repealed by Costs in
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14" id="c00416" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="14" Title="Criminal Cases Act 1973">Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00417" CitationRef="c00416" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14/schedule/2" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-2">Sch. 2</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847812" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/43" id="c00418" Year="1980" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="43" Title="Magistrates Courts' Act 1980">Magistrates Courts' Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00419" CitationRef="c00418" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/43/section/154/1" SectionRef="section-154-1">s. 154(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00420" CitationRef="c00418" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/43/schedule/7/paragraph/96" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-7-paragraph-96">Sch. 7 para. 96</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847813" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/55" id="c01239" Year="1979" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="55" Title="Justices of the Peace Act 1979">Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55, SIF 82)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01240" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/55/section/71" CitationRef="c01239" SectionRef="section-71">s. 71</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01241" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/55/schedule/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01239" SectionRef="schedule-3">Sch. 3</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847814" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01242" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/2" SectionRef="section-53-2">S. 53(2)</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>a</Emphasis>
) repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/62" id="c01243" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="62" Title="Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973">Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01244" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/62/schedule/6" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01243" SectionRef="schedule-6">Sch. 6</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847815" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01245" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/2" SectionRef="section-53-2">S. 53(2)</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>b</Emphasis>
) repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/71" id="c01246" Year="1972" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="71" Title="Criminal Justice Act 1972">Criminal Justice Act 1972 (c. 71)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01247" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/71/schedule/6/part/II" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01246" SectionRef="schedule-6-part-II">Sch. 6 Pt. II</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847816" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1952/52" id="c01248" Year="1952" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="52">1952 c. 52</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847817" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1952/52" id="c01249" Year="1952" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="52">1952 c. 52</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847818" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1964/26" id="c01250" Year="1964" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="26">1964 c. 26</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847819" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c01251" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/4" SectionRef="section-53-4">S. 53(4)</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>a</Emphasis>
) repealed (with saving) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/28" id="c01252" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="28" Title="Licensing (Alcohol Education and Research) Act 1981">Licensing (Alcohol Education and Research) Act 1981 (c. 28, SIF 68A:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01253" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/28/section/11" CitationRef="c01252" SectionRef="section-11">s. 11</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01254" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/28/schedule/2/part/I" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01252" SectionRef="schedule-2-part-I">Sch. 2 Pt. I</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847820" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>The text of ss. 26(3)(4), 51(2), 53(5) and 56(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847821" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1964/48" id="c01255" Year="1964" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="48">1964 c. 48</Citation>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847822" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/62" id="c01256" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="62" Title="Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973">Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01257" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/62/schedule/5/paragraph/41" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01256" SectionRef="schedule-5-paragraph-41">Sch. 5 para. 41</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847823" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/62" id="c01258" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="62">1973 c. 62</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847824" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1964/48" id="c01259" Year="1964" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="48">1964 c. 48</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847851" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00424" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/2/4" SectionRef="section-54-2-4">S. 54(2)(4)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/70" id="c00425" Year="1972" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="70" Title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00426" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/70/schedule/30" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00425" SectionRef="schedule-30">Sch. 30</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847852" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/70" id="c00427" Year="1972" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="70" Title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00428" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/70/schedule/30" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00427" SectionRef="schedule-30">Sch. 30</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847854" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1966/42" id="c01334" Year="1966" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42">1966 c. 42</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847855" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1889/63" id="c00432" Year="1889" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="63">1889 c. 63</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847856" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>The text of ss. 26(3)(4), 51(2), 53(5) and 56(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847857" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Definition of “the Judicature Act 1925” repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54" id="c00433" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Supreme Court Act 1981">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00434" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4" CitationRef="c00433" SectionRef="section-152-4">s. 152(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00435" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00433" SectionRef="schedule-7">Sch. 7</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847858" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/20" id="c00436" Year="1983" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="20" Title="Mental Health Act 1983">Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00437" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/20/section/148/1" CitationRef="c00436" SectionRef="section-148-1">s. 148(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00438" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/20/schedule/4/paragraph/28" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00436" SectionRef="schedule-4-paragraph-28">Sch. 4 para. 28</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847859" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00439" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/2" SectionRef="section-57-2">S. 57(2)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/45" id="c00440" Year="1977" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="45" Title="Criminal Law Act 1977">Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00441" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/45/schedule/13" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00440" SectionRef="schedule-13">Sch. 13</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847860" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00442" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/3" SectionRef="section-57-3">S. 57(3)</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>a</Emphasis>
) repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54" id="c00443" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Supreme Court Act 1981">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00444" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4" CitationRef="c00443" SectionRef="section-152-4">s. 152(4)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00445" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00443" SectionRef="schedule-7">Sch. 7</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847861" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00446" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/58" SectionRef="section-58">S. 58</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36" id="c00447" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="36" Title="Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973">Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00448" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36/section/42" CitationRef="c00447" SectionRef="section-42">s. 42</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00449" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36/schedule/6/part/I" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00447" SectionRef="schedule-6-part-I">Sch. 6 Pt. I</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847862" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
Power of appointment conferred by s. 59(2) exercised by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1971/1151" id="c01335" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1971" Number="1151">S.I. 1971/1151</Citation>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847863" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00456" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/b" SectionRef="section-59-5-b">S. 59(5)(b)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24" id="c00457" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="24" Title="House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975">House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00458" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24/schedule/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00457" SectionRef="schedule-3">Sch. 3</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847864" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1848/42" id="c01336" Year="1848" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42">1848 c. 42</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847865" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/45" id="c01337" Year="1977" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="45" Title="Criminal Law Act 1977">Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01338" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/45/section/65/7" CitationRef="c01337" SectionRef="section-65-7">s. 65(7)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01339" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/45/schedule/13" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01337" SectionRef="schedule-13">Sch. 13</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847866" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36" id="c01340" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="36" Title="Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973">Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01341" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36/section/42" CitationRef="c01340" SectionRef="section-42">s. 42</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c01342" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36/schedule/6/part/I" Operative="true" CitationRef="c01340" SectionRef="schedule-6-part-I">Sch. 6 Pt. I</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847867" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00465" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/b" SectionRef="section-59-6-b">S. 59(6)(b)</CitationSubRef>
repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24" id="c00466" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="24" Title="House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975">House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00467" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24/schedule/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00466" SectionRef="schedule-3">Sch. 3</CitationSubRef>
and
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/25" id="c00468" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="25" Title="Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975">Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 25)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00469" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/25/schedule/3/part/I" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00468" SectionRef="schedule-3-part-I">Sch. 3 Pt. I</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847868" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1848/42" id="c01343" Year="1848" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42">1848 c. 42</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847869" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1851/93" id="c00473" Year="1851" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="93">1851 c. 93</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c847870" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1848/42" id="c00474" Year="1848" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42">1848 c. 42</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
</Commentaries>
</Legislation>