10(1)Section 26 (qualifications for appointment as justices’ clerk) shall be amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (1) the words “of any class or description" and, in paragraph (a), the words from “and is within" to “that class or description" shall be omitted.
(3)For subsection (3) there shall be substituted—
“(3)A person not having the qualification which is required by subsection (1)(a) above may be appointed as justices’ clerk if at the time of the appointment he is a barrister or solicitor and has served for not less than five years as assistant to a justices’ clerk.”
(4)Subsections (2), (4) and (5) shall be omitted.