HC Deb 11 May 1925 vol 183 c1442
Colonel DAY

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if any special qualifications are required of justices of the peace who preside in children's Courts; and, seeing that it h, at present necessary for them to be more than 55 years of age in order to be justices of the peace. for these Courts. will he recommend, as these cases are purely to do with children, that younger men and women be appointed in future.?

The UNDERSECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. G. Locker-Lampson)

My right hon. Friend agrees with the full answer which his predecessor gave to a similar question last year, and will send the hon. and gallant. Member a copy of it. As to age, the hon. Member is completely misinformed