Part II Justices of the peace

F1 District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts)

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Amendments (Textual)
F1

Heading substituted (31.8.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 78(1) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3(a)

F210E Disapplication of restrictions.

1

Nothing in the M1Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980—

a

requiring a magistrates’ court to be composed of two or more justices or to sit in a petty sessional court-house or an occasional court-house; or

b

limiting the powers of a magistrates’ court when composed of a single justice or when sitting elsewhere than in a petty sessional court-house,

shall apply to any District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) sitting in a place appointed for the purpose.

2

Subsection (1) above does not apply to the hearing or determination of family proceedings within the meaning of section 65 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.