§ '. In section 28 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (general powers and duties of justices' clerks) after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
§ "(1A) Such rules may also make provision enabling things authorised to be done by, to or before a justices' clerk (whether by virtue of subsection (1) above or otherwise) to be done instead by, to or before—
- (a) a person appointed by a magistrates' courts committee to assist him;
- (b) where he is a part-time justices' clerk, any member of his staff who has been appointed by the magistrates' courts committee to assist him in his duties as such;
- (c) any officer appointed by the committee of magistrates to be his deputy or to assist him.".'.—[The Attorney-General.]
§ Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.