Metropolitan Magistrates' Courts Act 1959
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1959 c. 45 |
| Year | 1959 |
Metropolitan Magistrates' Courts Act, 1959
(7 & 8 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 45
An Act to increase the maximum number of the metropolitan stipendiary magistrates; to authorise the appointment of acting stipendiary magistrates for the metropolitan stipendiary court area; to enable the Receiver to provide premises required for the probation system within the said area; and to make further provision with respect to the power of the Receiver to borrow money.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Increase in numbers of metropolitan stipendiary magistrates.
1. Section two of the Metropolitan Police Courts Act, 1839, and section two of the Metropolitan Police Courts Act, 1840(which provide for regulating the numbers of the metropolitan magistrates' courts, the divisions to be assigned thereto and the number of stipendiary magistrates to be appointed therefor, subject in each case to the proviso that the total number of those magistrates shall not exceed twenty-seven) shall have effect as if for the word ‘twenty-seven’ there were substituted the word ‘thirty-five’.
2 Provision for acting metropolitan stipendiary magistrates.
(1) If it appears to the Lord Chancellor that it is expedient so to do in order to avoid delays in the administration of justice in the metropolitan stipendiary court area, he may authorise any person, being a barrister of not less than seven years' standing or a solicitor of the Supreme Court of the like standing, to act as a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate during such period (not exceeding three months at one time) as the Lord Chancellor thinks fit.
(2) All things required or authorised by law to be done by, to or before a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate may be done by, to or before any person acting as such in pursuance of this section.
(3) The oaths required by law to be taken by a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate may, in the case of a person authorised to act as such under this section, be taken before any of the metropolitan stipendiary magistrates.
(4) The Lord Chancellor may, out of moneys provided by Parliament, pay to any person authorised to act under this section such remuneration as he may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine.
3 Power of Receiver to provide premises for probation purposes.
(1) The Receiver shall have and shall be deemed always to have had the same powers with respect to land and buildings required for purposes of the probation system within the metropolitan stipendiary court area as he has with respect to land and buildings required for purposes of the metropolitan police force and the metropolitan magistrates' courts, and the provisions of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1886 , as amended by subsequent enactments, shall have effect accordingly.
(2) Any expenses of the Receiver under this section, to such amount as may be approved by the Secretary of State, shall be defrayed out of the metropolitan police fund, and subsection (3) of...
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