HL Deb 24 October 1990 vol 522 cc1463-4

161 Clause 90, page 64, line 46, at end add—

'(3) The general rule making power of any authority having power to make rules of court for Northern Ireland shall include power to make any provision which may be made under section 93 of the Act of 1989 (rules of court) subject to the modifications that in subsection (2)—

  1. (a) paragraphs (e) and (i) shall be omitted; and
  2. (b) in paragraphs (f) and (g) the references to England and Wales shall be read as references to Northern Ireland.'.

162 After Clause 90, insert the following clause:—

Extension of powers of justices' clerks

'. 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—

  1. (a) a person appointed by a magistrates' courts committee to assist him;
  2. (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;
  3. (c) any officer appointed by the committee of magistrates to be his deputy or to assist him.".'.

The Lord Chancellor

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 161 and 162 en bloc. I have already spoken to Amendments Nos. 161 and 162 with Amendment No. 12.

Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 161 and 162. —(The Lord Chancellor.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.