Children and Young Persons Act 1963

19 Assessors for recorder in appeals and committals from juvenile courts

(1) Where a court of quarter sessions for a borough deals with a case on appeal from a juvenile court or with the case of a person committed by a juvenile court to quarter sessions under section 28 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 or section 67 of the Mental Health Act 1959, the recorder shall, where practicable, be assisted by two members of a juvenile court panel, who shall sit with him and act as assessors.

(2) Where in any case only one such member is available the recorder may sit with that member, and where in any case no such member is available and it appears to the recorder that an adjournment would not be in the interests of justice, he may sit alone.

(3) The Lord Chancellor may by rules made by statutory instrument make provision for the selection of justices to act under subsection (1) of this section and for securing their presence on the bench, and those rules shall secure that, so far as practicable, of any two justices assisting the recorder one is a man and one a woman.

(4) Except where rules under the preceding subsection otherwise provide, the said justices shall be selected from the juvenile court panel for the borough (or, if the borough is part of an area for which a combined panel has been formed in pursuance of Schedule 2 to this Act, the juvenile court panel for that area).

(5) Rules under subsection (3) of this section may provide, in the case of any borough or class of borough, either—

(a) that the said justices shall be selected also from the juvenile court panel for any other area which includes part of the county in which the borough is situated (or, in the case of a county borough, of a county which has a common boundary with it); or

(b) that they shall be so selected instead of being selected from the panel mentioned in subsection (4) of this section.