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2.—(1) Subject to rule 4, there shall be a committee, known as a family panel, for each local justice area.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the family panel shall consist of the family justices for the local justice area to which the family panel relates.
(3) An authorised District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) shall be a member of the family panel for a local justice area in which that judge is usually nominated by the Lord Chief Justice to sit as a justice of the peace, except where that local justice area is within the Greater London area.
(4) In paragraph (3), “Greater London area” means the local justice areas covering the London Boroughs listed in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2007 Rules.
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