Pts. I, II (ss. 1–15) repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7

Words inserted by Bail Act 1976 (c. 63), Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(2)

S. 13(3) repealed by Bail Act 1976 (c. 63), Sch. 3

Words 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. 5

S. 17(1) substituted (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 8(2); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2

S. 17(2)(3) repealed (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 8(3)(4), Sch.9; S.I. 1995/631, art. 2

S. 17(5) repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24), Sch. 3 and Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 25), Sch. 3 Pt. I

S. 17(6) repealed by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 125(7), Sch. 20

S. 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S. 18(3) repealed by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37, 76:1), ss. 84(c), 125(7), Sch. 20

S. 18(4) repealed by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 125(7), Sch. 20

1967 c. 28.

S. 19(1)–(4) repealed by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), s. 36(2), Sch. 4

S. 19(5) repealed by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37, 76:1), s. 125(7), Sch. 20 (subject to a saving in s. 125(6), Sch. 19 para. 10(3))

S. 19(6) repealed by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), s. 36(2), Sch. 4

S. 19(7) paragraphs (b) and (c) repealed by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), s. 36(2), Sch. 4

S. 20(1)–(4) repealed (E.W.) by County Courts Act 1984 (c. 28, SIF 34), s. 148(3), Sch. 4

1959 c. 22.

Words in s. 21(5) substituted (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 9(1); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2

1868 c. 72.

1871 c. 48.

S. 23 repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Courts Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7

S. 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. 146

S. 24(1A) inserted (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para. 9(2); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2

S. 24(4) repealed (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch.9; S.I. 1995/631, art. 2

Ss. 25, 26 repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7

1956 c. 46.

Ss. 25, 26 repealed (E.W.) by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7

1925 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.

Words in s. 29 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), arts. 1(2), 9, Sch. 2 para. 2(1)

Words in s. 30 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), arts. 1(2), 9, Sch. 2 para. 2(1)

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. 1

Ss. 31–40 repealed by Juries Act 1974 (c. 23), Sch. 3

S. 45 repealed by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c. 42, SIF 49:3), s. 46(3), Sch. 3

S. 46 repealed by Patents Act 1977 (c. 37), Sch. 6

Ss. 47–49, 51(1) repealed by Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14), Sch. 2

S. 50 repealed by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7

Ss. 47–49, 51(1) repealed by Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14), Sch. 2

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. 52(1)(2) repealed by Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14), Sch. 2

S. 52(3)(a) repealed by Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14), Sch. 2

Words repealed by Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14), Sch. 2

Words substituted by Magistrates Courts' Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), s. 154(1), Sch. 7 para. 96

S. 54(2)(4) repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30

Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30

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. 7

Words substituted by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), s. 148(1), Sch. 4 para. 28

S. 57(2) repealed by Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), Sch. 13

S. 57(3)(a) repealed by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7

S. 58 repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), s. 42, Sch. 6 Pt. I

S. 59(5)(b) repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24), Sch. 3

S. 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. I

1851 c. 93.

1848 c. 42.

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)

Words substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), s. 71(2), Sch. 10 para. 32(2)

S. 27 substituted (3.1.1995) by 1994 c. 40, ss. 76, 82(2), Sch. 16 para. 2

1972 c. 11.

Words in s. 27 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), arts. 1(2). 9, {Sch. 2 para. 2(1)}

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. 3

1990 c.8 (123:1).

S. 28: functions transferred from the First Secretary of State to the Secretary of State (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), arts. 1(2), 7 (with art. 8)

Words in s. 28 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), arts. 1(2), 9, Sch. 2 para. 2(2)

Words repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55, SIF 82), s. 71, Sch. 3

S. 53(2)(a) repealed by Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62), Sch. 6

S. 53(2)(b) repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1972 (c. 71), Sch. 6 Pt. II

1952 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. I

S. 53(5) repealed (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 29, s. 93, Sch. 9 Pt. I; S.I. 1994/3262, art. 4, Sch.

Words in s. 53(6) repealed (5.2.1994) by 1993 c. 47, ss. 32, 33(2), Sch. 4

Words in s. 53(6) repealed (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 29, s. 93, Sch. 9 Pt. I; S.I. 1994/3262, art. 4, Sch.

S. 53(7)(a) repealed (5.2.1994) by 1993 c. 47, ss. 32, 33(2), Sch. 4

In s. 53(7) the words "and (b) any amalgamation " onwards repealed (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 29, s. 93, Sch. 9 Pt. I; S.I. 1994/3262, art. 4, Sch.

1966 c. 42.

Power of appointment conferred by s. 59(2) exercised by S.I. 1971/1151

1848 c. 42.

Words repealed by Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), s. 65(7), Sch. 13

Words repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), s. 42, Sch. 6 Pt. I

1848 c. 42.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/body/2003-08-19Courts 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 Database2023-05-122003-08-19Part I Introductory
1 The Supreme Court.

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2 Location of sittings and business of High Court.

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3 Abolition of courts of quarter sessions.

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Part II The Crown Court
4 Establishment of the Crown Court.

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5 Justices as judges of Crown Court.

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Trial on indictment
6 Exclusive jurisdiction in trial on indictment.

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7 Committal for trial on indictment.

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Other jurisdiction
8 Transfer to Crown Court of quarter sessions jurisdiction.

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9 Appeals to Crown Court.

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10 High Court jurisdiction in Crown Court proceedings.

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Trial on indictment and other jurisdiction
11 Sentences imposed and other decisions made by Crown Court.

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12 Right of audience.

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13 Process to compel appearance before Crown Court.1

Any 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.

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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.

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The Crown Court may grant bail to any person

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who has been committed in custody for appearance before the Crown Court, or

b

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

c

who is in the custody of the Crown Court pending the disposal of his case by the Crown Court, or

d

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

e

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,

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.

5

Provision may be made by Crown Court rules as respects the powers of the Crown Court relating to bail, including any provision—

a

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,

b

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,

c

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,

d

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,

e

making 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.

6

The Crown Court, on issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person, may endorse the warrant for bail, and in any such case—

a

the person arrested under the warrant shall, unless the Crown Court otherwise directs, be taken to a police station, and

b

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.

Provided that in the case of bail in criminal proceedings, the person arrested shall not be required to enter into a recognizance.

7

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—

a

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,

b

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.

8

Section 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.

9

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.

(10) In this section “bail in criminal proceedings” has the same meaning as in the Bail Act 1976.

14 Practice and procedure: power to make rules.

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15 Crown Court rules.

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Part III Judges
16 Appointment of Circuit Judges.1

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.

2

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.

3

No person shall be qualified to be appointed a Circuit judge unless—

a

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;

b

he is a Recorder; or

c

he has held as a full-time appointment for at least 3 years one of the offices listed in Part IA of Schedule 2.

4

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.

5

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.

17 Retirement, removal and disqualifications of Circuit judge.1

Subject to subsection (4) below and to subsections (4) to (6) of section 26 of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of 75), a Circuit judge shall vacate his office on the day on which he attains the age of 70.

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4

The Lord Chancellor may, if he thinks fit, remove a Circuit judge from office on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour.

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18 Salaries and allowances of Circuit judges.1

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.

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Every salary payable under this section—

a

shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund;

b

shall begin from the date of appointment and accrue due from day to day;

c

shall be payable at such intervals, not exceeding three months, as the Treasury may determine; and

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may be increased, but not reduced, by a further determination under this section.

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became a Circuit judge by virtue of having held any of the offices specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to this Act, and

b

held that office before 10th May 1967 (that is to say before the passing of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967).

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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.

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The decision of the Minister for the Civil Service shall be final on any question arising with regard to—

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the application of any of the provisions of this section to any person, or

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20 Judges of county courts.1

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.

2

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 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.

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The 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.

4

Notwithstanding that he is not for the time being assigned to a particular district, a Circuit judge—

a

shall sit as a judge of that district at such times and on such occasions as the Lord Chancellor may direct; and

b

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.

5

So 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.

6

On 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.

7

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.

21 Appointment of Recorders.1

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.

2

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 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.

3

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.

4

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.

5

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 day on which he attains the age of seventy, but this subsection is subject to section 26(4) to (6) of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (Lord Chancellor’s power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of 75)..

6

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.

7

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.

22 Oaths to be taken by Circuit judges and Recorders.1

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 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.

2

Notwithstanding 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.

3

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.

23 Circuit judge or Recorder sitting as High Court Judge.1

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.

2

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.

3

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—

a

the appointment, retirement, removal or disqualification of judges of the High Court,

b

the tenure of office and oaths to be taken by such judges, or

c

the remuneration, allowances or pensions of such judges.

4

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.

24 Deputy Circuit judges and assistant Recorders.1

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—

a

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

b

appoint 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..

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No appointment of a person under subsection (1) above shall be such as to extend—

a

in the case of appointment as a deputy Circuit judge, beyond the day on which he attains the age of seventy-five; or

b

in the case of appointment as an assistant Recorder, beyond the day on which he attains the age of seventy;

but paragraph (b) above is subject to section 26(4) to (6) of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (Lord Chancellor’s power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of 75).

2

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.

3

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.

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5

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.

25 Official referees’ business.1

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.

2

Such of the Circuit judges as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time determine shall discharge the said functions conferred on official referees.

3

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 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.

4

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.

Part IV Officers and Accommodation
26 Masters and registrars to be appointed by Lord Chancellor.1

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,—

a

the 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);

b

the Queen’s coroner and attorney and master of the Crown Office;

c

the registrar, assistant registrars and deputy assistant registrars of criminal appeals;

d

the admiralty registrar;

e

chancery registrars and assistant chancery registrars; and

f

district probate registrars.

2

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).

3

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”.

4

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.

27 Administrative and other court staff.1

The Secretary of State may, with the concurrence of the Treasury as to numbers and salaries, appoint such officers and other staff for the Supreme Court and county courts as appear to him appropriate for the following purposes, namely—

a

maintaining an administrative court service;

b

discharging any functions in those courts conferred by or under this or any other Act on officers so appointed; and

c

generally carrying out the administrative work of those courts.

2

The 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 officers and staff appointed under subsection (1) above as it applies to other persons employed in the civil service of the State.

3

If and to the extent that an order made by the Secretary of State so provides, the Secretary of State may enter into contracts with other persons for the provision for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) above, whether by those persons or by sub-contractors of theirs, of officers and staff for the Supreme Court and county courts.

4

No order under subsection (3) above shall authorise the contracting out of any functions the discharge of which would constitute—

a

making judicial decisions or advising persons making such decisions;

b

exercising any judicial discretion or advising persons exercising any such discretion; or

c

exercising any power of arrest.

5

An order under subsection (3) above may authorise the contracting out of any functions—

a

either wholly or to such extent as may be specified in the order;

b

either generally or in such cases or areas as may be so specified; and

c

either unconditionally or subject to the fulfilment of such conditions as may be so specified.

6

Before making an order under subsection (3) above, the Secretary of State shall consult with the senior judges as to what effect (if any) the order might have on the proper and efficient administration of justice.

7

An order under subsection (3) above shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

8

References in this section to the contracting out of any functions are references to the Secretary of State entering into contracts for the provision of officers and staff for the purpose of discharging those functions.

9

In this section—

the senior judges” means the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor and the President of the Family Division;

the Supreme Court” includes the district probate registries.

28 Provision of accommodation.1

The Secretary of State 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.

2

It is hereby declared that the expression “land necessary for the public service” in—

a

section 2 of the Commissioners of Works Act 1852 (acquisition by agreement), and

b

section 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 Secretary of State under this section.

3

The Secretary of State 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.

4

Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect as respects premises formerly used for business of the abolished courts, and judges’ lodgings.

29 Accommodation in City of London.1

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 “the Common Council”) to continue to make the said premises available for use for the sittings and business of those courts respectively.

2

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 Secretary of State.

3

The duties imposed by this section on the Common Council may at any time be varied, restricted or terminated by agreement between the Secretary of State and the Common Council.

30 Advisory committees.

The Secretary of State 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
31. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Part VI Miscellaneous and Supplemental Merger or abolition of certain courts and offices
41 Merger of Palatine Courts with High Court.1

On the appointed day—

a

the Court of Chancery of the county palatine of Lancaster (in this Act referred to as “the Lancaster Palatine Court”), and

b

the 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.

2

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.

42 Local court for City of London.1

The Mayor’s and City of London Court, as constituted immediately before the commencement of this Act, is hereby abolished.

2

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.

3

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.

4

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.

43 Abolition of certain other local courts.1

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:—

a

the Tolzey and Pie Poudre Courts of the City and County of Bristol;

b

the Liverpool Court of Passage;

c

the Norwich Guildhall Court; and

d

the Court of Record for the Hundred of Salford.

2

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.

44 Abolition of certain offices.1

The following offices are hereby abolished:—

a

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;

b

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;

c

clerk of assize, circuit bailiff and any other office the duties of which relate exclusively to courts of assize.

2

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—

a

to the preceding provisions of this section, or

b

to the abolition or merger of any court (including courts of assize, courts of quarter sessions and Palatine courts) by this Act, or

c

to the transfer by this Act of any function to the Lord Chancellor or to any other Minister.

3

Regulations under this section may—

a

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,

b

make special provision for persons who, but for any national service, would be holders of any office or engaged in any employment,

c

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,

d

be 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.

4

Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

46. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Costs
47. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

50. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

51 Construction and consequential amendments1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2

Schedule 6 to this Act, which amends enactments about costs, shall have effect.

52 Award of costs where information or complaint is not proceeded with.1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3

Where—

a

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

b

a 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.

4

An 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
53 Administrative functions of justices.1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3

Visiting 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.

4

For the purpose of replacing the references to courts of quarter sessions where they occur in the Licensing Act 1964 in relation to—

a

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

b

the 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.

5

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6

Without prejudice to their effect on appointments made after the commencement of this Act, nothing in . . . subsection (4) . . . above shall affect the membership of any . . . county compensation authority or police committee in existence at the commencement of this Act.

7

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—

a

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Boroughs: honorary offices
54 Boroughs: honorary offices.1

The council of a borough shall have power to appoint a person to be honorary recorder of the borough.

2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3

A 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—

a

had power by charter to appoint a recorder of the borough, and

b

did not have a separate court of quarter sessions.

4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Supplemental
55 Financial provisions.1

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.

2

There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any sums payable by any Minister under or by virtue of this Act.

3

Any sum payable under this Act to the Lord Chancellor or any other Minister shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

4

In 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—

a

which is attributable to the coming into operation of the said provision of this Act, and

b

which 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).

56 Minor and consequential amendments, transitional provisions and repeals.1

Schedule 8 to this Act (which contains consequential and other amendments) shall have effect.

2

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.

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”.

3

Schedule 10 to this Act, which contains transitional provisions, shall have effect.

4

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.

57 Interpretation of this Act and rules of construction of other Acts.1

In 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

a hospital order under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983, with or without an order restricting discharge, and

b

a recommendation for deportation made when dealing with an offender.

2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3

Except where the context otherwise requires, in this or any other Act—

a

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

b

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).

4

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.

5

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.

6

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.

7

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.

58. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

59 Short title, commencement and extent.1

This Act may be cited as the Courts Act 1971.

2

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.

3

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).

4

A statutory instrument made under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

5

The following provisions of this Act, and no others, shall extend to Scotland—

a

section 13(8) and, so far as it relates to the Court of Session, section 46,

b

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

c

any provision of this Act affecting the operation of the law of Scotland in relation to courts in England and Wales,

d

the provisions of this Act about interpretation and commencement,

e

Schedule 8 to this Act so far as it amends section 14 of the Indictable Offences Act 1848, . . .

6

The following provisions of this Act, and no others, shall extend to Northern Ireland—

a

section 46 of this Act except so far as it relates to the Court of Session . . .

b

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

c

any provision of this Act affecting the operation of the law of Northern Ireland in relation to courts in England and Wales,

d

the provisions of this Act about interpretation and commencement,

e

Schedule 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.

7

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 Indictable Offences Act 1848.

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<notes source="#source">
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847701">
<p>
Pts. I, II (ss. 1–15) repealed (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4">s. 152(4)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7">Sch. 7</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847720">
<p>
Words inserted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/2/paragraph/48/1/2">Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(2)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847722">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/3">S. 13(3)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/3">Sch. 3</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847723">
<p>
Words substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/2/paragraph/48/1/3">Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(3)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847725">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/5/a">S. 13(5)(a)</ref>
substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/2/paragraph/48/1/4">Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(4)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847726">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1952/55">1952 c. 55</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847727">
<p>
Proviso added by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/2/paragraph/48/1/5">Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(5)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847728">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1881/24">1881 c. 24</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847729">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1952/55">1952 c. 55</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847730">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/13/10">S. 13(10)</ref>
added by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63">Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/2/paragraph/48/1/6">Sch. 2 para. 48(1)(6)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847731">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/63">1976 c. 63</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847734">
<p>
S. 16(3)(a)–(c) substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/71/2">s. 71(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/10/paragraph/31/1">Sch. 10 para. 31(1)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c847735">
<p>
S. 16(3)(c) modified by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37, 76:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/6">s. 125(6)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/19/paragraph/5">Sch. 19 para. 5</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847738">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/1">S. 17(1)</ref>
substituted (31.3.1995) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8">1993 c. 8</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8/section/26">s. 26</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8/schedule/6/paragraph/8/2">Sch. 6 para. 8(2)</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/631">S.I. 1995/631</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/631/article/2">art. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847739">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/2/3">S. 17(2)(3)</ref>
repealed (31.3.1995) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8">1993 c. 8</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8/section/26">s. 26</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8/schedule/6/paragraph/8/3/4">Sch. 6 para. 8(3)(4)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8/schedule/9">Sch.9</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/631">S.I. 1995/631</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/631/article/2">art. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847741">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/5">S. 17(5)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24">House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24/schedule/3">Sch. 3</ref>
and
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/25">Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 25)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/25/schedule/3/part/I">Sch. 3 Pt. I</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847742">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/17/6">S. 17(6)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/7">s. 125(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/20">Sch. 20</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c847743">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18">S. 18</ref>
modified (9.11.1998) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/42">1998 c. 42</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/42/section/18/4/d">s. 18(4)(d)</ref>
(with
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/42/section/7/8">ss. 7(8)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/42/section/22/5">22(5)</ref>
)
</p>
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18">S. 18</ref>
modified (27.9.1999) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22">1999 c. 22</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22/section/68/3/a">ss. 68(3)(a)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22/section/108/3/b">108(3)(b)</ref>
(with
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22/schedule/14/paragraph/7/2">Sch. 14 para. 7(2)</ref>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847744">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/3">S. 18(3)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37, 76:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/84/c">ss. 84(c)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/7">125(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/20">Sch. 20</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847745">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/18/4">S. 18(4)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/7">s. 125(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/20">Sch. 20</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847746">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1967/28">1967 c. 28</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847747">
<p>
<rref from="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">S. 19(1)–(4)</rref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20">Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/section/36/2">s. 36(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/schedule/4">Sch. 4</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847748">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/5">S. 19(5)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37, 76:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/7">s. 125(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/20">Sch. 20</ref>
(subject to a saving in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/125/6">s. 125(6)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/19/paragraph/10/3">Sch. 19 para. 10(3)</ref>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847749">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/6">S. 19(6)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20">Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/section/36/2">s. 36(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/schedule/4">Sch. 4</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847750">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/19/7">S. 19(7)</ref>
paragraphs (
<em>b</em>
) and (
<em>c</em>
) repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20">Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/section/36/2">s. 36(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/20/schedule/4">Sch. 4</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847751">
<p>
<rref from="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">S. 20(1)–(4)</rref>
repealed (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/28">County Courts Act 1984 (c. 28, SIF 34)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/28/section/148/3">s. 148(3)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/28/schedule/4">Sch. 4</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847752">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1959/22">1959 c. 22</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847757">
<p>
Words in s. 21(5) substituted (31.3.1995) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8">1993 c. 8</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8/section/26">s. 26</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8/schedule/6/paragraph/9/1">Sch. 6 para. 9(1)</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/631">S.I. 1995/631</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/631/article/2">art. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847758">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1868/72">1868 c. 72</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847759">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1871/48">1871 c. 48</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847760">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/23">S. 23</ref>
repealed (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54">Supreme Courts Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4">s. 152(4)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7">Sch. 7</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847767">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24">S. 24</ref>
with subsections (1)–(5) substituted (E.W.) for s. 24 with subsections (1)–(6) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/146">s. 146</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847769">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/1A">S. 24(1A)</ref>
inserted (31.3.1995) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8">1993 c. 8</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8/section/26">s. 26</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8/schedule/6/paragraph/9/2">Sch. 6 para. 9(2)</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/631">S.I. 1995/631</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/631/article/2">art. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847770">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/24/4">S. 24(4)</ref>
repealed (31.3.1995) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8">1993 c. 8</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8/section/26">s. 26</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/8/schedule/9">Sch.9</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/631">S.I. 1995/631</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/631/article/2">art. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847771">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/25">Ss. 25</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26">26</ref>
repealed (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4">s. 152(4)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7">Sch. 7</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847772">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1956/46">1956 c. 46</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847773">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/25">Ss. 25</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/26">26</ref>
repealed (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4">s. 152(4)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7">Sch. 7</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847774">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1925/49">1925 c. 49</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847775">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1959/72">1959 c. 72</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c847776">
<p>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.</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c2070482">
<p>
Words in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/29">s. 29</ref>
substituted (19.8.2003) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887">The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/1/2">arts. 1(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/9">9</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/schedule/2/paragraph/2/1">Sch. 2 para. 2(1)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c2070488">
<p>
Words in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/30">s. 30</ref>
substituted (19.8.2003) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887">The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/1/2">arts. 1(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/9">9</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/schedule/2/paragraph/2/1">Sch. 2 para. 2(1)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c2070142">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/part/4">Pt. 4</ref>
functions tranferred (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887">S.I. 2003/1887</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/1/2">arts. 1(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/4">4</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/schedule/1">Sch. 1</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847801">
<p>
<rref from="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/31" upTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/40">Ss. 31–40</rref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/23">Juries Act 1974 (c. 23)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/23/schedule/3">Sch. 3</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847802">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/45">S. 45</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/42">Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c. 42, SIF 49:3)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/42/section/46/3">s. 46(3)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/42/schedule/3">Sch. 3</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847803">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/46">S. 46</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/37">Patents Act 1977 (c. 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/37/schedule/6">Sch. 6</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847804">
<p>
<rref from="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/47" upTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/49">Ss. 47–49</rref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/51/1">51(1)</ref>
repealed by Costs in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14">Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14/schedule/2">Sch. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847805">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/50">S. 50</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4">s. 152(4)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7">Sch. 7</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847806">
<p>
<rref from="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/47" upTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/49">Ss. 47–49</rref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/51/1">51(1)</ref>
repealed by Costs in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14">Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14/schedule/2">Sch. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c847807">
<p>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.</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847808">
<p>
S. 52(1)(2) repealed by Costs in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14">Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14/schedule/2">Sch. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847809">
<p>
S. 52(3)(a) repealed by Costs in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14">Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14/schedule/2">Sch. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847810">
<p>
Words repealed by Costs in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14">Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/14/schedule/2">Sch. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847812">
<p>
Words substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/43">Magistrates Courts' Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/43/section/154/1">s. 154(1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/43/schedule/7/paragraph/96">Sch. 7 para. 96</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847851">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/54/2/4">S. 54(2)(4)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/70">Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/70/schedule/30">Sch. 30</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847852">
<p>
Words repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/70">Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/70/schedule/30">Sch. 30</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847855">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1889/63">1889 c. 63</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c847856">
<p>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.</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847857">
<p>
Definition of “the Judicature Act 1925” repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4">s. 152(4)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7">Sch. 7</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847858">
<p>
Words substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/20">Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/20/section/148/1">s. 148(1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/20/schedule/4/paragraph/28">Sch. 4 para. 28</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847859">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/2">S. 57(2)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/45">Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/45/schedule/13">Sch. 13</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847860">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/57/3">S. 57(3)</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
) repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54">Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/section/152/4">s. 152(4)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/54/schedule/7">Sch. 7</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847861">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/58">S. 58</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36">Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36/section/42">s. 42</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36/schedule/6/part/I">Sch. 6 Pt. I</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847863">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/5/b">S. 59(5)(b)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24">House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24/schedule/3">Sch. 3</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847867">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/59/6/b">S. 59(6)(b)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24">House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/24/schedule/3">Sch. 3</ref>
and
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/25">Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 25)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/25/schedule/3/part/I">Sch. 3 Pt. I</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847869">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1851/93">1851 c. 93</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847870">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1848/42">1848 c. 42</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847753">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1959/22">1959 c. 22</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847754">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1959/22">1959 c. 22</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847756">
<p>
Words substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/71/2">s. 71(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/10/paragraph/32/1">Sch. 10 para. 32(1)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847768">
<p>
Words substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/71/2">s. 71(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/10/paragraph/32/2">Sch. 10 para. 32(2)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847781">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/27">S. 27</ref>
substituted (3.1.1995) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/40">1994 c. 40</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/40/section/76">ss. 76</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/40/section/82/2">82(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/40/schedule/16/paragraph/2">Sch. 16 para. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847782">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/11">1972 c. 11</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c2070149">
<p>
Words in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/27">s. 27</ref>
substituted (19.8.2003) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887">The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/1/2">arts. 1(2)</ref>
. 9, {Sch. 2 para. 2(1)}
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847797">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1852/28">1852 c. 28</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847798">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/28/2">S. 28(2)</ref>
(
<em>b</em>
) substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/11">Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/11/section/4">s. 4</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/11/schedule/2/paragraph/25">Sch. 2 para. 25</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/11/schedule/3">Sch. 3</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847799">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/8">1990 c.8</ref>
(
<strong>123:1</strong>
).
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c2070475">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/28">S. 28</ref>
: functions transferred from the First Secretary of State to the Secretary of State (19.8.2003) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887">The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/1/2">arts. 1(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/7">7</ref>
(with
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/8">art. 8</ref>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c2070317">
<p>
Words in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/28">s. 28</ref>
substituted (19.8.2003) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887">The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/1/2">arts. 1(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/article/9">9</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2003/1887/schedule/2/paragraph/2/2">Sch. 2 para. 2(2)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847838">
<p>
Words repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/55">Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55, SIF 82)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/55/section/71">s. 71</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/55/schedule/3">Sch. 3</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847839">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/2">S. 53(2)</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
) repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/62">Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/62/schedule/6">Sch. 6</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847840">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/2">S. 53(2)</ref>
(
<em>b</em>
) repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/71">Criminal Justice Act 1972 (c. 71)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/71/schedule/6/part/II">Sch. 6 Pt. II</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847841">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1952/52">1952 c. 52</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847842">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1952/52">1952 c. 52</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847843">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1964/26">1964 c. 26</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847844">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/4">S. 53(4)</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
) repealed (with saving) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/28">Licensing (Alcohol Education and Research) Act 1981 (c. 28, SIF 68A:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/28/section/11">s. 11</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/28/schedule/2/part/I">Sch. 2 Pt. I</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847845">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/5">S. 53(5)</ref>
repealed (1.4.1995) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/29">1994 c. 29</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/29/section/93">s. 93</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/29/schedule/9/part/I">Sch. 9 Pt. I</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/3262">S.I. 1994/3262</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/3262/article/4">art. 4</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/3262/schedule">Sch.</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847846">
<p>
Words in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/6">s. 53(6)</ref>
repealed (5.2.1994) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/47">1993 c. 47</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/47/section/32">ss. 32</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/47/section/33/2">33(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/47/schedule/4">Sch. 4</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847847">
<p>
Words in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/6">s. 53(6)</ref>
repealed (1.4.1995) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/29">1994 c. 29</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/29/section/93">s. 93</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/29/schedule/9/part/I">Sch. 9 Pt. I</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/3262">S.I. 1994/3262</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/3262/article/4">art. 4</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/3262/schedule">Sch.</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847849">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/23/section/53/7/a">S. 53(7)(a)</ref>
repealed (5.2.1994) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/47">1993 c. 47</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/47/section/32">ss. 32</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/47/section/33/2">33(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/47/schedule/4">Sch. 4</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847850">
<p>
In s. 53(7) the words "and (b) any amalgamation " onwards repealed (1.4.1995) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/29">1994 c. 29</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/29/section/93">s. 93</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/29/schedule/9/part/I">Sch. 9 Pt. I</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/3262">S.I. 1994/3262</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/3262/article/4">art. 4</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1994/3262/schedule">Sch.</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847854">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1966/42">1966 c. 42</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c847862">
<p>
Power of appointment conferred by s. 59(2) exercised by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1971/1151">S.I. 1971/1151</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847864">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1848/42">1848 c. 42</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847865">
<p>
Words repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/45">Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/45/section/65/7">s. 65(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/45/schedule/13">Sch. 13</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c847866">
<p>
Words repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36">Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36/section/42">s. 42</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/36/schedule/6/part/I">Sch. 6 Pt. I</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c847868">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1848/42">1848 c. 42</ref>
.
</p>
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Part I
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<heading> Introductory</heading>
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<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
1
</num>
<heading> The Supreme Court.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
2
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<heading> Location of sittings and business of High Court.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
3
</num>
<heading> Abolition of courts of quarter sessions.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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<part eId="part-II">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
Part II
</num>
<heading> The Crown Court</heading>
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<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
4
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<heading> Establishment of the Crown Court.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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<section eId="section-5" period="#period7">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
5
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<heading> Justices as judges of Crown Court.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
6
</num>
<heading> Exclusive jurisdiction in trial on indictment.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
7
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<heading> Committal for trial on indictment.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
8
</num>
<heading> Transfer to Crown Court of quarter sessions jurisdiction.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
9
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<heading> Appeals to Crown Court.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
10
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<heading> High Court jurisdiction in Crown Court proceedings.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
</content>
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<heading> Trial on indictment and other jurisdiction</heading>
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<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
11
</num>
<heading> Sentences imposed and other decisions made by Crown Court.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
</content>
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<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
12
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<heading> Right of audience.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
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<num>
<ins class="d30p758">13</ins>
</num>
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<ins class="d30p758 first">
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Process to compel appearance before Crown Court.
</ins>
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<subsection eId="section-13-1">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">1</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">
<ins class="d30p770 first last">
<noteRef href="#c847720" marker="F2" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Any direction to appear and
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d30p758"> 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 </ins>
<ins class="d30p758">
<ins class="d30p774 first last">
<noteRef href="#c847720" marker="F2" class="commentary attribute F"/>
direction
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d30p758"> condition, summons or order, it may be varied by any subsequent direction of the Crown Court.</ins>
</p>
</content>
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<num>
<ins class="d30p758">2</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
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<subsection eId="section-13-3">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847722" marker="F3" class="commentary F"/>
<ins class="d30p758">3</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-13-4">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">4</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">
<ins class="d30p796 first last">
<noteRef href="#c847723" marker="F4" class="commentary attribute F"/>
The Crown Court may grant bail to any person
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d30p758"></ins>
</p>
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<num>
<ins class="d30p758">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">who has been committed in custody for appearance before the Crown Court, or</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-13-4-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-13-4-c">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">c</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">who is in the custody of the Crown Court pending the disposal of his case by the Crown Court, or</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-13-4-d">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">d</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-13-4-e">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">e</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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,</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">and the time during which a person is </ins>
<ins class="d30p758">
<ins class="d30p832 first last">
<noteRef href="#c847723" marker="F4" class="commentary attribute F"/>
released on
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d30p758"> bail under any provision of this subsection shall not count as part of any term of imprisonment or detention under his sentence.</ins>
</p>
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</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-13-5">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">5</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">Provision may be made by Crown Court rules as respects the powers of the Crown Court relating to bail, including any provision— </ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-13-5-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">
<ins class="d30p842 first">
<noteRef href="#c847725" marker="F5" class="commentary attribute F"/>
a
</ins>
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">
<ins class="d30p842 last">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,</ins>
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-13-5-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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,</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-13-5-c">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">c</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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,</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-13-5-d">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">d</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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,</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-13-5-e">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">e</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">making provision corresponding to sections 94 and 95 of the </ins>
<noteRef href="#c847726" marker="M1" class="commentary M"/>
<ins class="d30p758">Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 (varying or dispensing with requirements as to sureties, and postponement of taking recognizances).</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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.</ins>
</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-13-6">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">6</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">The Crown Court, on issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person, may endorse the warrant for bail, and in any such case—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-13-6-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">the person arrested under the warrant shall, unless the Crown Court otherwise directs, be taken to a police station, and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-13-6-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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.</ins>
</p>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">
<ins class="d30p898 first last">
<noteRef href="#c847727" marker="F6" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Provided that in the case of bail in criminal proceedings, the person arrested shall not be required to enter into a recognizance.
</ins>
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-13-7">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">7</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-13-7-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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,</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-13-7-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-13-8">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">8</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">Section 4 of the </ins>
<noteRef href="#c847728" marker="M2" class="commentary M"/>
<ins class="d30p758">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 </ins>
<noteRef href="#c847729" marker="M3" class="commentary M"/>
<ins class="d30p758">Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 by a magistrates’ court.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-13-9">
<num>
<ins class="d30p758">9</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">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.</ins>
</p>
<p>
<ins class="d30p758">
<ins class="d30p937 first">
<noteRef href="#c847730" marker="F7" class="commentary attribute F"/>
(10) In this section “
</ins>
</ins>
<term refersTo="#term-bail-in-criminal-proceedings">
<ins class="d30p758">
<ins class="d30p937">bail in criminal proceedings</ins>
</ins>
</term>
<ins class="d30p758">
<ins class="d30p937">” has the same meaning as in the </ins>
</ins>
<noteRef href="#c847731" marker="M4" class="commentary M"/>
<ins class="d30p758 last">
<ins class="d30p937 last">Bail Act 1976.</ins>
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
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<section eId="section-14" period="#period7">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
14
</num>
<heading> Practice and procedure: power to make rules.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
</content>
</section>
<section eId="section-15" period="#period7">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847701" marker="F1" class="commentary F"/>
15
</num>
<heading> Crown Court rules.</heading>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
</content>
</section>
</hcontainer>
</part>
<part eId="part-III" period="#period9">
<num>Part III</num>
<heading> Judges</heading>
<section eId="section-16" period="#period4">
<num>16</num>
<heading> Appointment of Circuit Judges.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-16-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-16-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-16-3">
<num>3</num>
<intro>
<p>
No person shall be qualified to be appointed a Circuit judge
<ins class="d30p8879 first">
<noteRef href="#c847734" marker="F8" class="commentary attribute F"/>
unless—
</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-16-3-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p8879">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p8879">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;</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-16-3-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p8879">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p8879">he is a Recorder; or</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-16-3-c">
<num>
<ins class="d30p8879">
<noteRef href="#c847735" marker="C1" class="commentary C"/>
c
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p8879 last">he has held as a full-time appointment for at least 3 years one of the offices listed in Part IA of Schedule 2.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-16-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-16-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-17" period="#period8">
<num>17</num>
<heading> Retirement, removal and disqualifications of Circuit judge.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-17-1">
<num>
<ins class="d30p8969 first">
<noteRef href="#c847738" marker="F9" class="commentary F"/>
1
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p8969 last">Subject to subsection (4) below and to subsections (4) to (6) of section 26 of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of 75), a Circuit judge shall vacate his office on the day on which he attains the age of 70.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-17-2">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847739" marker="F10" class="commentary F"/>
2
</num>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-17-3">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847739" marker="F10" class="commentary F"/>
3
</num>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-17-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>The Lord Chancellor may, if he thinks fit, remove a Circuit judge from office on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-17-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847741" marker="F11" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-17-6">
<num>6</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847742" marker="F12" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-18" period="#period7">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847743" marker="C2" class="commentary C"/>
18
</num>
<heading> Salaries and allowances of Circuit judges.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-18-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-18-2">
<num>2</num>
<intro>
<p>Every salary payable under this section—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-18-2-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-18-2-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>shall begin from the date of appointment and accrue due from day to day;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-18-2-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>shall be payable at such intervals, not exceeding three months, as the Treasury may determine; and</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-18-2-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>may be increased, but not reduced, by a further determination under this section.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-18-3">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847744" marker="F13" class="commentary F"/>
3
</num>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-18-4">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847745" marker="F14" class="commentary F"/>
4
</num>
<intro>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-18-4-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>became a Circuit judge by virtue of having held any of the offices specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to this Act, and</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-18-4-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>
held that office before 10th May 1967 (that is to say before the passing of the
<noteRef href="#c847746" marker="M5" class="commentary M"/>
Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967).
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-18-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-19" period="#period7">
<num>19</num>
<heading/>
<subsection eId="section-19-1">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847747" marker="F15" class="commentary F"/>
1
</num>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-19-5">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847748" marker="F16" class="commentary F"/>
5
</num>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-19-6">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847749" marker="F17" class="commentary F"/>
6
</num>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-19-7">
<num>7</num>
<intro>
<p>The decision of the Minister for the Civil Service shall be final on any question arising with regard to—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-19-7-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>the application of any of the provisions of this section to any person, or</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-19-7-b">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847750" marker="F18" class="commentary F"/>
b
</num>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-20" period="#period1">
<num>20</num>
<heading> Judges of county courts.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-20-1">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9021 first">
<noteRef href="#c847751" marker="F19" class="commentary attribute F"/>
1
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9021">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-20-2">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9021">2</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9021">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 </ins>
<ins class="d30p9021">
<noteRef href="#c847752" marker="M6" class="commentary M"/>
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.
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-20-3">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9021">3</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9021">The following, that is—</ins>
</p>
<blockList class="unordered">
<item>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9021">every judge of the Court of Appeal,</ins>
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9021">every judge of the High Court,</ins>
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9021">every Recorder,</ins>
</p>
</item>
</blockList>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9021">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-20-4">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9021">4</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9021">Notwithstanding that he is not for the time being assigned to a particular district, a Circuit judge—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-20-4-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9021">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9021">shall sit as a judge of that district at such times and on such occasions as the Lord Chancellor may direct; and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-20-4-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9021">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9021 last">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-20-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>
So much of Part I of the
<noteRef href="#c847753" marker="M15" class="commentary M"/>
County Courts Act 1959 as makes special provision in relation to county court districts within the Duchy of Lancaster shall cease to have effect.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-20-6">
<num>6</num>
<content>
<p>
On the appointed day all appointments of temporary and deputy judges of county courts shall terminate and the provisions of the
<noteRef href="#c847754" marker="M16" class="commentary M"/>
County Courts Act 1959 relating to such temporary and deputy judges shall cease to have effect.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-20-7">
<num>7</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-21" period="#period8">
<num>21</num>
<heading> Appointment of Recorders.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-21-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-21-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>
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
<ins class="d30p9175 first last">
<noteRef href="#c847756" marker="F48" class="commentary attribute F"/>
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
</ins>
.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-21-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-21-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-21-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>
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
<ins class="d30p9197 first last">
<noteRef href="#c847757" marker="F20" class="commentary attribute F"/>
the day on which he attains the age of seventy, but this subsection is subject to section 26(4) to (6) of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (Lord Chancellor’s power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of 75).
</ins>
.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-21-6">
<num>6</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-21-7">
<num>7</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-22" period="#period3">
<num>22</num>
<heading> Oaths to be taken by Circuit judges and Recorders.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-22-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>
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
<noteRef href="#c847758" marker="M7" class="commentary M"/>
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.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-22-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>
Notwithstanding anything in the
<noteRef href="#c847759" marker="M8" class="commentary M"/>
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.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-22-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-23">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1627">23</ins>
</num>
<heading>
<ins class="d30p1627 first">
<noteRef href="#c847760" marker="F21" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Circuit judge or Recorder sitting as High Court Judge.
</ins>
</heading>
<subsection eId="section-23-1">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1627">1</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1627">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-23-2">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1627">2</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1627">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-23-3">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1627">3</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1627">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—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-23-3-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1627">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1627">the appointment, retirement, removal or disqualification of judges of the High Court,</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-23-3-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1627">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1627">the tenure of office and oaths to be taken by such judges, or</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-23-3-c">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1627">c</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1627">the remuneration, allowances or pensions of such judges.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-23-4">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1627">4</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1627 last">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-24" period="#period8">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9546">24</ins>
</num>
<heading>
<ins class="d30p9546 first">
<noteRef href="#c847767" marker="F22" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Deputy Circuit judges and assistant Recorders.
</ins>
</heading>
<subsection eId="section-24-1">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9546">1</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9546">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—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-24-1-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9546">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9546">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</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-24-1-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9546">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9546">appoint to be an assistant Recorder, during such period or on such occasions as he thinks fit, </ins>
<ins class="d30p9546">
<ins class="d30p9571 first last">
<noteRef href="#c847768" marker="F49" class="commentary attribute F"/>
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.
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d30p9546">.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-24-1A">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9546">
<ins class="d30p9575 first">
<noteRef href="#c847769" marker="F23" class="commentary F"/>
1A
</ins>
</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9546">
<ins class="d30p9575">No appointment of a person under subsection (1) above shall be such as to extend—</ins>
</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-24-1A-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9546">
<ins class="d30p9575">a</ins>
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9546">
<ins class="d30p9575">in the case of appointment as a deputy Circuit judge, beyond the day on which he attains the age of seventy-five; or</ins>
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-24-1A-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9546">
<ins class="d30p9575">b</ins>
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9546">
<ins class="d30p9575">in the case of appointment as an assistant Recorder, beyond the day on which he attains the age of seventy;</ins>
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9546">
<ins class="d30p9575 last">but paragraph (b) above is subject to section 26(4) to (6) of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (Lord Chancellor’s power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of 75).</ins>
</ins>
</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-24-2">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9546">2</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9546">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-24-3">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9546">3</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9546">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-24-4">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9546">
<noteRef href="#c847770" marker="F24" class="commentary F"/>
4
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9546">. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-24-5">
<num>
<ins class="d30p9546">5</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p9546 last">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-25">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1778">25</ins>
</num>
<heading>
<ins class="d30p1778 first">
<noteRef href="#c847771" marker="F25" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Official referees’ business.
</ins>
</heading>
<subsection eId="section-25-1">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1778">1</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1778">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-25-2">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1778">2</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1778">Such of the Circuit judges as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time determine shall discharge the said functions conferred on official referees.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-25-3">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1778">3</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1778">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 </ins>
<ins class="d30p1778">
<noteRef href="#c847772" marker="M9" class="commentary M"/>
Administration of Justice Act 1956 or otherwise, shall be known as “
</ins>
<term refersTo="#term-official-referees-business">
<ins class="d30p1778">official referees’ business</ins>
</term>
<ins class="d30p1778">”, 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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-25-4">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1778">4</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1778 last">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
</part>
<part eId="part-IV" period="#period6">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c2070142" marker="C4" class="commentary C"/>
Part IV
</num>
<heading> Officers and Accommodation</heading>
<section eId="section-26">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1826">26</ins>
</num>
<heading>
<ins class="d30p1826 first">
<noteRef href="#c847773" marker="F26" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Masters and registrars to be appointed by Lord Chancellor.
</ins>
</heading>
<subsection eId="section-26-1">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1826">1</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1826">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,—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1826">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1826">the masters, assistant masters and registrars specified in Part I of Schedule 3 to the </ins>
<ins class="d30p1826">
<noteRef href="#c847774" marker="M10" class="commentary M"/>
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
</ins>
<ins class="d30p1826">
<noteRef href="#c847775" marker="M11" class="commentary M"/>
Mental Health Act 1959);
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1826">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1826">the Queen’s coroner and attorney and master of the Crown Office;</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-c">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1826">c</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1826">the registrar, assistant registrars and deputy assistant registrars of criminal appeals;</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-d">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1826">d</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1826">the admiralty registrar;</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-e">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1826">e</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1826">chancery registrars and assistant chancery registrars; and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-f">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1826">f</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1826">district probate registrars.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-26-2">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1826">2</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1826">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).</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-26-3">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1826">
<noteRef href="#c847776" marker="C3" class="commentary C"/>
3
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1826">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”.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-26-4">
<num>
<ins class="d30p1826">4</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p1826 last">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.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-27" period="#period13">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">27</ins>
</num>
<heading>
<ins class="d30p10008 first">
<noteRef href="#c847781" marker="F50" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Administrative and other court staff.
</ins>
</heading>
<subsection eId="section-27-1">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">1</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">The </ins>
<ins class="d30p10008">
<ins class="substitution d30p10022 first last">
<noteRef href="#c2070149" marker="F51" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Secretary of State
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d30p10008">
<noteRef href="#c2070149" marker="F51" class="commentary F"/>
may, with the concurrence of the Treasury as to numbers and salaries, appoint such officers and other staff for the Supreme Court and county courts as appear to him appropriate for the following purposes, namely—
</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-27-1-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">maintaining an administrative court service;</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-27-1-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">discharging any functions in those courts conferred by or under this or any other Act on officers so appointed; and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-27-1-c">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">c</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">generally carrying out the administrative work of those courts.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-2">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">2</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">The principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation </ins>
<ins class="d30p10008">
<noteRef href="#c847782" marker="M17" class="commentary M"/>
Act 1972 and for the time being in force shall, with the necessary adaptations, apply to officers and staff appointed under subsection (1) above as it applies to other persons employed in the civil service of the State.
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-3">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">3</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">If and to the extent that an order made by the </ins>
<ins class="d30p10008">
<ins class="substitution d30p10058 first last">
<noteRef href="#c2070149" marker="F51" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Secretary of State
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d30p10008">
<noteRef href="#c2070149" marker="F51" class="commentary F"/>
so provides, the
</ins>
<ins class="d30p10008">
<ins class="substitution d30p10062 first last">
<noteRef href="#c2070149" marker="F51" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Secretary of State
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d30p10008">
<noteRef href="#c2070149" marker="F51" class="commentary F"/>
may enter into contracts with other persons for the provision for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) above, whether by those persons or by sub-contractors of theirs, of officers and staff for the Supreme Court and county courts.
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-4">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">4</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">No order under subsection (3) above shall authorise the contracting out of any functions the discharge of which would constitute—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-27-4-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">making judicial decisions or advising persons making such decisions;</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-27-4-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">exercising any judicial discretion or advising persons exercising any such discretion; or</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-27-4-c">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">c</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">exercising any power of arrest.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-5">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">5</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">An order under subsection (3) above may authorise the contracting out of any functions—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-27-5-a">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">either wholly or to such extent as may be specified in the order;</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-27-5-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">either generally or in such cases or areas as may be so specified; and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-27-5-c">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">c</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">either unconditionally or subject to the fulfilment of such conditions as may be so specified.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-6">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">6</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">Before making an order under subsection (3) above, the </ins>
<ins class="d30p10008">
<ins class="substitution d30p10120 first last">
<noteRef href="#c2070149" marker="F51" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Secretary of State
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d30p10008">
<noteRef href="#c2070149" marker="F51" class="commentary F"/>
shall consult with the senior judges as to what effect (if any) the order might have on the proper and efficient administration of justice.
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-7">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">7</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">An order under subsection (3) above shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-8">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">8</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">References in this section to the contracting out of any functions are references to the </ins>
<ins class="d30p10008">
<ins class="substitution d30p10136 first last">
<noteRef href="#c2070149" marker="F51" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Secretary of State
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d30p10008">
<noteRef href="#c2070149" marker="F51" class="commentary F"/>
entering into contracts for the provision of officers and staff for the purpose of discharging those functions.
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-9">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10008">9</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008">In this section—</ins>
</p>
<blockList class="unordered">
<item>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008"></ins>
<term refersTo="#term-the-senior-judges">
<ins class="d30p10008">the senior judges</ins>
</term>
<ins class="d30p10008">” means the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor and the President of the Family Division;</ins>
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10008"></ins>
<term refersTo="#term-the-supreme-court">
<ins class="d30p10008">the Supreme Court</ins>
</term>
<ins class="d30p10008 last">” includes the district probate registries.</ins>
</p>
</item>
</blockList>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-28" period="#period13">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c2070475" marker="C7" class="commentary C"/>
28
</num>
<heading> Provision of accommodation.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-28-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>
The
<ins class="substitution d30p10415 first last">
<noteRef href="#c2070317" marker="F53" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Secretary of State
</ins>
<noteRef href="#c2070317" marker="F53" class="commentary F"/>
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.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-28-2">
<num>2</num>
<intro>
<p>It is hereby declared that the expression “land necessary for the public service” in—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-28-2-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>
section 2 of the
<noteRef href="#c847797" marker="M18" class="commentary M"/>
Commissioners of Works Act 1852 (acquisition by agreement), and
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-28-2-b">
<num>
<ins class="d30p10433 first">
<noteRef href="#c847798" marker="F52" class="commentary attribute F"/>
b
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d30p10433">section 228(1) of the </ins>
<ins class="d30p10433 last">
<noteRef href="#c847799" marker="M19" class="commentary M"/>
Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (power of Secretary of State to acquire compulsorily land necessary for the public service)
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>
includes any land which is required to discharge the duties of the
<ins class="substitution d30p10445 first last">
<noteRef href="#c2070317" marker="F53" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Secretary of State
</ins>
<noteRef href="#c2070317" marker="F53" class="commentary F"/>
under this section.
</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-28-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>
The
<ins class="substitution d30p10455 first last">
<noteRef href="#c2070317" marker="F53" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Secretary of State
</ins>
<noteRef href="#c2070317" marker="F53" class="commentary F"/>
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.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-28-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect as respects premises formerly used for business of the abolished courts, and judges’ lodgings.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-29" period="#period11">
<num>29</num>
<heading> Accommodation in City of London.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-29-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>
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 refersTo="#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.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-29-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>
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
<ins class="substitution d30p1943 first last">
<noteRef href="#c2070482" marker="F27" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Secretary of State
</ins>
<noteRef href="#c2070482" marker="F27" class="commentary F"/>
.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-29-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>
The duties imposed by this section on the Common Council may at any time be varied, restricted or terminated by agreement between the
<ins class="substitution d30p1953 first last">
<noteRef href="#c2070482" marker="F27" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Secretary of State
</ins>
<noteRef href="#c2070482" marker="F27" class="commentary F"/>
and the Common Council.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-30" period="#period14">
<num>30</num>
<heading> Advisory committees.</heading>
<content>
<p>
The
<ins class="substitution d30p10517 first last">
<noteRef href="#c2070488" marker="F28" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Secretary of State
</ins>
<noteRef href="#c2070488" marker="F28" class="commentary F"/>
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.
</p>
</content>
</section>
</part>
<part eId="part-V">
<num>Part V</num>
<section eId="section-31">
<num>31</num>
<heading>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847801" marker="F29" class="commentary F"/>
</heading>
<content>
<p/>
</content>
</section>
</part>
<part eId="part-VI" period="#period5">
<num>Part VI</num>
<heading> Miscellaneous and Supplemental</heading>
<hcontainer name="crossheading" eId="part-VI-crossheading-merger-or-abolition-of-certain-courts-and-offices" period="#period6">
<heading> Merger or abolition of certain courts and offices</heading>
<section eId="section-41" period="#period1">
<num>41</num>
<heading> Merger of Palatine Courts with High Court.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-41-1">
<num>1</num>
<intro>
<p>On the appointed day—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-41-1-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>
the Court of Chancery of the county palatine of Lancaster (in this Act referred to as “
<term refersTo="#term-the-lancaster-palatine-court">the Lancaster Palatine Court</term>
”), and
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-41-1-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>
the Court of Chancery of the county palatine of Durham and Sadberge (in this Act referred to as “
<term refersTo="#term-the-durham-palatine-court">the Durham Palatine Court</term>
”),
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>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.</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-41-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-42" period="#period1">
<num>42</num>
<heading> Local court for City of London.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-42-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>The Mayor’s and City of London Court, as constituted immediately before the commencement of this Act, is hereby abolished.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-42-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-42-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-42-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-43" period="#period1">
<num>43</num>
<heading> Abolition of certain other local courts.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-43-1">
<num>1</num>
<intro>
<p>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:—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-43-1-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>the Tolzey and Pie Poudre Courts of the City and County of Bristol;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-43-1-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>the Liverpool Court of Passage;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-43-1-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>the Norwich Guildhall Court; and</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-43-1-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>the Court of Record for the Hundred of Salford.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-43-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-44">
<num>44</num>
<heading> Abolition of certain offices.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-44-1">
<num>1</num>
<intro>
<p>The following offices are hereby abolished:—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-44-1-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>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;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-44-1-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>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;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-44-1-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>clerk of assize, circuit bailiff and any other office the duties of which relate exclusively to courts of assize.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-44-2">
<num>2</num>
<intro>
<p>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—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-44-2-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>to the preceding provisions of this section, or</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-44-2-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>to the abolition or merger of any court (including courts of assize, courts of quarter sessions and Palatine courts) by this Act, or</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-44-2-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>to the transfer by this Act of any function to the Lord Chancellor or to any other Minister.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-44-3">
<num>3</num>
<intro>
<p>Regulations under this section may—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-44-3-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>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,</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-44-3-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>make special provision for persons who, but for any national service, would be holders of any office or engaged in any employment,</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-44-3-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>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,</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-44-3-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>be framed so as to have effect from a date earlier than the making of the regulations,</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>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.</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-44-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-45">
<num>45</num>
<heading>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847802" marker="F30" class="commentary F"/>
</heading>
<content>
<p/>
</content>
</section>
<section eId="section-46">
<num>46</num>
<heading>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847803" marker="F31" class="commentary F"/>
</heading>
<content>
<p/>
</content>
</section>
</hcontainer>
<hcontainer name="crossheading" eId="part-VI-crossheading-costs" period="#period5">
<heading> Costs</heading>
<section eId="section-47">
<num>47</num>
<heading>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847804" marker="F32" class="commentary F"/>
</heading>
<content>
<p/>
</content>
</section>
<section eId="section-50">
<num>50</num>
<heading>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847805" marker="F33" class="commentary F"/>
</heading>
<content>
<p/>
</content>
</section>
<section eId="section-51">
<num>51</num>
<heading> Construction and consequential amendments</heading>
<subsection eId="section-51-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847806" marker="F34" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-51-2">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847807" marker="C5" class="commentary C"/>
2
</num>
<content>
<p>Schedule 6 to this Act, which amends enactments about costs, shall have effect.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-52" period="#period2">
<num>52</num>
<heading> Award of costs where information or complaint is not proceeded with.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-52-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847808" marker="F35" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-52-3">
<num>3</num>
<intro>
<p>Where—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-52-3-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847809" marker="F36" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-52-3-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>a complaint is made to a justice of the peace acting for any area but the complaint is not proceeded with,</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>
a magistrates’ court for that area may make such order as to costs to be paid . . .
<noteRef href="#c847810" marker="F37" class="commentary F"/>
, by the complainant to the defendant as it thinks just and reasonable.
</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-52-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>An order under subsection (3) above shall specify the amount of the costs ordered to be paid.</p>
<p>
(5) . . .
<noteRef href="#c847810" marker="F37" class="commentary F"/>
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
<ins class="d30p10692 first last">
<noteRef href="#c847812" marker="F38" class="commentary attribute F"/>
section 64 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980
</ins>
(power to award, and enforcement of, costs in civil proceedings).
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
</hcontainer>
<hcontainer name="crossheading" eId="part-VI-crossheading-administrative-functions-of-justices">
<heading> Administrative functions of justices</heading>
<section eId="section-53" period="#period10">
<num>53</num>
<heading> Administrative functions of justices.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-53-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847838" marker="F54" class="commentary F"/>
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.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-53-2">
<num>2</num>
<paragraph eId="section-53-2-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847839" marker="F55" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-53-2-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847840" marker="F56" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-53-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>
Visiting committees appointed as mentioned in subsection (1) of section 6 of the
<noteRef href="#c847841" marker="M20" class="commentary M"/>
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
<noteRef href="#c847842" marker="M21" class="commentary M"/>
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.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-53-4">
<num>4</num>
<intro>
<p>
For the purpose of replacing the references to courts of quarter sessions where they occur in the
<noteRef href="#c847843" marker="M22" class="commentary M"/>
Licensing Act 1964 in relation to—
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-53-4-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847844" marker="F57" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-53-4-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>the licensing planning committee for any licensing planning area that consists of or includes the metropolis, as defined in that Act,</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>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.</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-53-5">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847845" marker="F58" class="commentary F"/>
5
</num>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-53-6">
<num>6</num>
<content>
<p>
Without prejudice to their effect on appointments made after the commencement of this Act, nothing in
<noteRef href="#c847846" marker="F59" class="commentary F"/>
. . . subsection (4)
<noteRef href="#c847847" marker="F60" class="commentary F"/>
. . . above shall affect the membership of any
<noteRef href="#c847846" marker="F59" class="commentary F"/>
. . . county compensation authority or police committee in existence at the commencement of this Act.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-53-7">
<num>7</num>
<intro>
<p>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—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-53-7-a">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847849" marker="F61" class="commentary F"/>
a
</num>
<content>
<p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p>
<p>
<noteRef href="#c847850" marker="F62" class="commentary F"/>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
</hcontainer>
<hcontainer name="crossheading" eId="part-VI-crossheading-boroughs-honorary-offices">
<heading> Boroughs: honorary offices</heading>
<section eId="section-54">
<num>54</num>
<heading> Boroughs: honorary offices.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-54-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>The council of a borough shall have power to appoint a person to be honorary recorder of the borough.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-54-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847851" marker="F39" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-54-3">
<num>3</num>
<intro>
<p>
A person shall not be qualified to hold office as an honorary recorder of a borough . . .
<noteRef href="#c847852" marker="F40" class="commentary F"/>
unless he is a Circuit judge or Recorder (that is to say a Recorder appointed under this Act):
</p>
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<p>Provided that this subsection shall not apply to a borough which immediately before the appointed day—</p>
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</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-54-3-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>had power by charter to appoint a recorder of the borough, and</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-54-3-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>did not have a separate court of quarter sessions.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-54-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847851" marker="F39" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
</hcontainer>
<hcontainer name="crossheading" eId="part-VI-crossheading-supplemental">
<heading> Supplemental</heading>
<section eId="section-55" period="#period1">
<num>55</num>
<heading> Financial provisions.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-55-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-55-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any sums payable by any Minister under or by virtue of this Act.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-55-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>Any sum payable under this Act to the Lord Chancellor or any other Minister shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-55-4">
<num>4</num>
<intro>
<p>
In the application of section 3(1) of the
<noteRef href="#c847854" marker="M23" class="commentary M"/>
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—
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-55-4-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>which is attributable to the coming into operation of the said provision of this Act, and</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-55-4-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>which was not taken into account in making the rate support grant order the variation of which is in question.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>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).</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-56">
<num>56</num>
<heading> Minor and consequential amendments, transitional provisions and repeals.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-56-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>Schedule 8 to this Act (which contains consequential and other amendments) shall have effect.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-56-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
<p>
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
<noteRef href="#c847855" marker="M12" class="commentary M"/>
Interpretation Act 1889, were included in the expression “court of quarter sessions”.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-56-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>Schedule 10 to this Act, which contains transitional provisions, shall have effect.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-56-4">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847856" marker="C6" class="commentary C"/>
4
</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-57">
<num>57</num>
<heading> Interpretation of this Act and rules of construction of other Acts.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-57-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—</p>
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the “
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<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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<term refersTo="#term-sentence">sentence</term>
”, in relation to an offence, includes any order made by a court when dealing with an offender including—
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a hospital order under
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Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983
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, with or without an order restricting discharge, and
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</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-57-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847859" marker="F43" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
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</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-57-3">
<num>3</num>
<intro>
<p>Except where the context otherwise requires, in this or any other Act—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-57-3-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847860" marker="F44" class="commentary F"/>
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<paragraph eId="section-57-3-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>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).</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-57-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-57-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-57-6">
<num>6</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-57-7">
<num>7</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-58">
<num>58</num>
<heading>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847861" marker="F45" class="commentary F"/>
</heading>
<content>
<p/>
</content>
</section>
<section eId="section-59" period="#period1">
<num>59</num>
<heading> Short title, commencement and extent.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-59-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>This Act may be cited as the Courts Act 1971.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-59-2">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c847862" marker="C8" class="commentary C"/>
2
</num>
<content>
<p>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.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-59-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>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).</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-59-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>A statutory instrument made under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-59-5">
<num>5</num>
<intro>
<p>The following provisions of this Act, and no others, shall extend to Scotland—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-59-5-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>section 13(8) and, so far as it relates to the Court of Session, section 46,</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-59-5-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847863" marker="F46" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-59-5-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>any provision of this Act affecting the operation of the law of Scotland in relation to courts in England and Wales,</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-59-5-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>the provisions of this Act about interpretation and commencement,</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-59-5-e">
<num>e</num>
<content>
<p>
Schedule 8 to this Act so far as it amends section 14 of the
<noteRef href="#c847864" marker="M24" class="commentary M"/>
Indictable Offences Act 1848, . . .
<noteRef href="#c847865" marker="F63" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-59-6">
<num>6</num>
<intro>
<p>The following provisions of this Act, and no others, shall extend to Northern Ireland—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-59-6-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>
section 46 of this Act except so far as it relates to the Court of Session . . .
<noteRef href="#c847866" marker="F64" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-59-6-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c847867" marker="F47" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-59-6-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>any provision of this Act affecting the operation of the law of Northern Ireland in relation to courts in England and Wales,</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-59-6-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>the provisions of this Act about interpretation and commencement,</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-59-6-e">
<num>e</num>
<content>
<p>
Schedule 8 to this Act so far as it amends section 12 of the
<noteRef href="#c847868" marker="M25" class="commentary M"/>
Indictable Offences Act 1848 and section 30 of the
<noteRef href="#c847869" marker="M13" class="commentary M"/>
Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851.
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-59-7">
<num>7</num>
<content>
<p>
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
<noteRef href="#c847870" marker="M14" class="commentary M"/>
Indictable Offences Act 1848.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
</hcontainer>
</part>
</portionBody>
</portion>
</akomaNtoso>