SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS

Part 1: Lay magistrates

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A person who, immediately before section 4 comes into operation, was a lay magistrate for a county court division shall be treated as having been appointed under section 4 as a lay magistrate for the administrative court division which—

a

is specified in the first directions given under section 2 as an administrative court division for all or the residual purposes of a magistrates' court; and

b

contains the whole or the largest part of the county court division for which the lay justice was appointed.