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(1)Subject to the provisions of this section—
(a)the petty sessional court-houses and other accommodation, goods and services to be provided by the paying authority, or each of the paying authorities, under section 55 above;
(b)the salary to be paid to a justices’ clerk or justices’ chief executive and to staff of a magistrates’ courts committee [F1for an area outside Greater London]; and
(c)the nature and amount of the expenses which [F2such ]a magistrates’ courts committee may incur in the discharge of any functions or may authorise to be incurred,
shall be such as may from time to time be determined by the magistrates’ courts committee after consultation with the paying authority or authorities.
[F3(1A)Subsection (1) above does not apply to the extent that regulations made by virtue of section 59E below have the effect of precluding a determination as to any of the matters mentioned in that subsection.]
(2)Where the expenses of a magistrates’ courts committee [F4for an area outside Greater London ](including any sums which, by virtue of section 55(6) above, are to be taken to be such expenses) fall to be borne by more than one paying authority, any question as to the manner in which they are to be borne by the authorities concerned shall be determined by agreement between those authorities and the magistrates’ courts committee concerned or, in default of such agreement, shall be determined by the Lord Chancellor.
(3)Any paying authority which is aggrieved by a determination of a magistrates’ courts committee under subsection (1) above may, within one month from the receipt by the authority of written notice of the determination, appeal to the Lord Chancellor, whose decision shall be binding upon the magistrates’ courts committee and any authority concerned.
F5(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(5)In this section “paying authority” has the same meaning as in section 55 above.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 56(1)(b) inserted (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 83(3), Sch. 12 paras. 9, 17(1)(2)(a) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2(a)(i) (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 2 para. 2)
F2Word in s. 56(1)(c) inserted (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 83(3), Sch. 12 paras. 9, 17(1)(2)(b) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2(a)(i) (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 2 para. 2)
F3S. 56(1A) inserted (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 84(4), 108(3) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2))
F4Words in s. 56(2) inserted (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 83(3), Sch. 12 paras. 9, 17(1)(3) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2(a)(i) (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 2 para. 2)
F5S. 56(4) repealed (1.3.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. V(6) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 1999/3344, art. 3(b)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 56(2): modified (temp.) (18.11.1998) by S.I. 1998/2664, art. 5, Sch. para. 6(5)
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