HL Deb 18 July 1994 vol 557 cc53-4

105 Schedule 7, page 79, leave out lines 21 to 26 and insert: '(a) in paragraph (b), after the words "petty sessions area" there shall be inserted the words "(including any procedure for nominating candidates at any such election)", (b) for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted— (c) as to courses of instruction to be completed by justices before they may preside in court; (d) as to the approval of justices, by committees of justices constituted in accordance with the rules, before they may preside in court, as to the justices who may be so approved and as to the courts to which the approval relates; and (e) as to circumstances in which a justice may preside in court even though requirements imposed by virtue of paragraph (c) or (d) above are not satisfied in relation to him.".'.

The Lord Chancellor

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 105. I have already spoken to this amendment.

Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 105.—(The Lord Chancellor.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.