Explanatory Notes

Crime and Courts Act 2013

2013 CHAPTER 22

25 April 2013

Commentary on Sections

Part 2: Courts and Justice

Schedule 14: Deployment of the judiciary

Part 2:  Deployment of judges to the magistrates’ court

407.Paragraph 4 amends section 66 of the Courts Act 2003 to expand the list of judges who have the powers of a justice of the peace who is a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts). The offices which have been added are, the Master of the Rolls, an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal, the Senior President of Tribunals, judges of the First-tier and Upper Tribunals, county court and High Court district and deputy district judges and Masters, and members of a panel of Employment Judges.