Access to Justice Act 1999

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141(1)Section 7 (duty of accused to provide licence to clerk of court) is amended as follows.

(2)Number the existing provision as subsection (1) and, in paragraph (a) of that provision, for “clerk” substitute “proper officer”.

(3)After that provision insert—

(2)In subsection (1) above “proper officer” means—

(a)in relation to a magistrates' court in England and Wales, the justices' chief executive for the court, and

(b)in relation to any other court, the clerk of the court.