Part VI Administrative and financial arrangements
F3 Provisions applying to all magistrates’ courts committees.
59EF2 Standard goods and services.
1
The Lord Chancellor may by statutory instrument make regulations requiring every magistrates’ courts committee, or every specified magistrates’ courts committee, to obtain for the performance of any function referred to in section 55(1) or 59A(1) above—
a
specified goods or services; or
b
goods or services of a specified description,
if he considers that it would be in the interests of the efficient and effective administration of magistrates’ courts generally for them to do so.
2
Regulations made by virtue of subsection (1) above may include provision requiring magistrates’ courts committees to obtain the specified goods or services, or goods or services of the specified description—
a
from a specified person or person of a specified description;
b
at or by a specified time; or
c
both from such a person and at or by such a time.
3
A statutory instrument containing (whether alone or with other provisions) regulations made by virtue of this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
Heading inserted (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 83(2), 108(3)(c) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2))