SCHEDULE CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISION

Amendment of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 19751

1

The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 M1 is amended as follows.

2

In Schedule 1—

a

in Part II (offices, employments and work), in paragraph 4, for “justices' clerks and assistants to justices' clerks” substitute “justices' legal advisers”;

b

in Part IV (interpretation), for the definition of “assistants to justices' clerks” substitute—

““justices' legal adviser” means a person nominated by the Lord Chancellor who is authorised to exercise functions under section 28(1) of the Courts Act 2003 M2;”.