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(1)There shall be kept in the office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery a supplemental list for England and Wales as provided for by this Act (in this Act referred to as “the supplemental list”).
(2)Subject to the following provisions of this section, there shall be entered in the supplemental list—
(a)the name of any justice of the peace who has attained the age of 70 and neither holds nor has held high judicial office within the meaning of the M1Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876; and
(b)the name of any justice of the peace who holds or has held such office and has attained the age of 75.
(3)A person who, on the date when his name falls to be entered in the supplemental list in accordance with subsection (2) above, holds office as chairman of the justices for a petty sessions area F1 . . . shall have his name so entered on the expiry or earlier determination of the term for which he holds office on that date.
(4)The Lord Chancellor may direct that the name of a justice of the peace for any area shall be entered in the supplemental list if the Lord Chancellor is satisfied either—
(a)that by reason of the justice’s age or infirmity or other similar cause it is expedient that he should cease to exercise judicial functions as a justice for that area; or
(b)that the justice declines or neglects to take a proper part in the exercise of those functions.
(5)On a person’s appointment as a justice of the peace for any area the Lord Chancellor may direct that his name shall be entered in the supplemental list if that person is appointed a justice for that area on ceasing to be a justice for some other area.
(6)The name of a justice of the peace shall be entered in the supplemental list if he applies for it to be so entered and the application is approved by the Lord Chancellor.
(7)Nothing in this section applies to a person holding office as stipendiary magistrate.
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F1Words in s. 7(3) repealed (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 106, 108(3)(f), Sch. 15 Pt. V(1) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 1999/2657, art. 2(d)(iii)
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