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The Local Justice Areas Order 2016

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Article 5

SCHEDULE

PART 1Consequential and Transitional Provisions

1.—(1) The persons referred to in sub-paragraph (2) must be elected in the prescribed manner and for the prescribed term.

(2) The persons are—

(a)a chairman and one or more deputy chairmen of the justices of a new area;

(b)one or more members of a JTAAAC selection panel where the relevant JTAAAC area includes a new area;

(c)one or more members of an FTAAAC selection panel where the relevant FTAAAC area includes a new area.

(3) Subject to paragraph 2, the persons elected under sub-paragraph (2)(a) are to hold that position from 1st April 2017.

(4) The persons elected under sub-paragraph (2)(a) may hold one or more meetings after the conclusion of the process of election but before 1st April 2017 for the purpose of preparing to assume their functions on and after that date.

(5) For the purposes of calculating, in the prescribed manner, the number of persons to be elected under sub-paragraph (2)(b) or (c), the number of local justice areas in the FTAAAC area or JTAAAC area is to be calculated as if the new area or areas exist and taking into account the number of continuing areas in the FTAAAC area or JTAAAC area.

(6) In this paragraph the expressions “the prescribed manner” and “the prescribed term” mean the manner and term prescribed by the Justices of the Peace Rules 2016.

PART 2Vacancy of chairman or deputy chairman of existing area

2.  In the event that a vacancy for the post of chairman or deputy chairman arises in an existing area before 1st April 2017, the person elected to be chairman or deputy chairman of the new area which is to include that existing area is to hold the position of chairman or deputy chairman (as the case may be) of that existing area until the new area comes into existence.

PART 3Other things done

3.  Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, anything done before 1st April 2017 by, to, before or in relation to any justices for an existing area, their clerk or any other officer of the court, is on or after that date, deemed to have been done in the new area.

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