Justices of the Peace Act 1997

Year1997
Justices of the
Peace Act 1997
CHAPTER 25
Justices of the Peace Act 1997
CHAPTER 25
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
COMMISSIONS OF THE PEACE AND PETTY SESSIONS AREAS
Section
1. Commission areas.
2. London commission areas.
3. General form of commissions of the peace.
4. Petty sessions areas.
PART II
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE
Justices other than stipendiary magistrates
5. Appointment and removal of justices of the peace.
6. Residence qualification.
7. Supplemental list for England and Wales.
8. Removal of name from supplemental list.
9. Effect of entry of name in supplemental list.
10. Travelling, subsistence and financial loss allowances.
Stipendiary magistrates
11. Appointment and removal of stipendiary magistrates.
12. Retirement of stipendiary magistrates.
13. Acting stipendiary magistrate.
14. Place of sitting and powers of stipendiary magistrates.
15. Certain restrictions on magistrates' courts not to apply to
stipendiary magistrates.
Metropolitan stipendiary magistrates
16. Appointment, removal and retirement of metropolitan
stipendiary magistrates.
17. Metropolitan stipendiary magistrates: allocation and sittings etc.
18. Jurisdiction of metropolitan stipendiary magistrates and lay
justices for inner London area.
19. Acting metropolitan stipendiary magistrate.
20. Division of work in inner London area.

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