§ Mr. NEWMANasked the Chief Secretary if there is any precedent for removing the name of a justice of the peace without recording the exact date of such removal and without communicating to the justice of the peace the fact that his name had been removed from the Commission of the Peace?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Lord Chancellor informs me that when a person has been publicly declared to be disqualified by law from acting as a magistrate he must be assumed to have become aware of his incapacity, and there is no obligation upon the Lord Chancellor to inform him that, as the legal consequence of his disqualification, his name has been removed from the Commission. The date of a removal following upon a previous legal disqualification is not always recorded. Where, however, a person is removed from the magistracy by the Lord Chancellor in the exercise of his disciplinary control over magistrates it is the practice to communicate the fact of such removal to him and to record the date of such removal.