Access to Justice Act 1999

20 (1) Paragraph 4 of Part II of Schedule 2 to the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951 (allocation of functions to make up civil remuneration of justices’ clerks) is amended as follows.

(2) In the first column—

(a) for “Clerk to county justices” substitute “ Justices’ clerk ”, and

(b) for “said Act” substitute “ Justices of the M1 Peace Act 1997 ”.

(3) For the entry in the third column substitute—

“The paying authority is the authority which is the paying authority in relation to the magistrates’ courts committee for the purposes of section 55 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (and where there are two or more such authorities, the proportions in which they contribute to give effect to any determination shall be such as they may agree or, in default of agreement, as may be determined by the Lord Chancellor).

The justices for whom the clerk acts are the authority entitled to appeal against a determination.”

Marginal Citations

M1 1997 c.25.