The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Berkshire and Oxfordshire) Amalgamation Order 1995

Functions of transferee committee

6.—(1) The transferee committee shall come into existence as a body corporate on the second appointed day.

(2) The first chairman of the transferee committee shall be appointed at the first meeting after the second appointed day, and shall hold office until the first meeting after 1st April 1997.

(3) The clerk designate for the time being shall act as clerk to the transferee committee from the second appointed day until such time as the transferee committee shall appoint a justices' chief executive, and thereafter the justices' chief executive shall act as clerk to the transferee committee.

(4) From the second appointed day until the amalgamation date the transferee committee shall be a shadow committee and shall only have the following functions and powers—

(a) to commence and sustain the running of the committee as a shadow committee;

(b) to make all necessary preparations for the assumption of its functions as a magistrates' courts committee on the amalgamation date;

(c) to prepare any budgets or plans required by it when those functions are assumed and to consult with the paying authority in relation to them;

(d) to appoint a justices' chief executive and staff of the transferee committee;

(e) to co-opt members in accordance with section 20(2)(a) of the 1979 Act;

(f) to act through sub-committees appointed by it as described in section 22(4) of the 1979 Act;

(g) to arrange for the discharge of any of its functions as described in section 22(4A) of the 1979 Act.

(5) The transferor committees shall give the transferee committee such information and assistance as is reasonably required to enable it to carry out its functions under this paragraph.

(6) On the amalgamation date, the transferee committee shall assume all the functions and powers of a magistrates' courts committee.