77 Justices’ chief executives and justices’ clerks to be employed under contracts of service.E+W
After section 26 of the 1979 Act there shall be inserted—
“26A Justices’ chief executives and justices’ clerks to be employed under contracts of service.
(1)Except as provided by this Act, a justices’ chief executive or justices’ clerk—
(a)shall be employed by the magistrates’ courts committee, on such terms as they may determine, and
(b)shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of his contract of service.
(2)Subsection (1) above shall not have effect in relation to any person appointed by a magistrates’ courts committee before the commencement of this section as justices’ clerk for a petty sessions area so long as he—
(a)continues to hold office as a justices’ clerk for that area or for any one or more petty sessions areas including any part of that area, and
(b)has not entered into a contract of service after the commencement of this section.
(3)Any justices’ clerk in relation to whom, by virtue of subsection (2) above, subsection (1) above does not have effect shall hold office during the pleasure of the magistrates’ courts committee concerned.”