Justices' Clerks (Hansard, 18 May 1994)

HC Deb 18 May 1994 vol 243 c452W 452W

§ Mr. Boateng
To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his answer of 3 May,Official Report, column 403, if he will list all the other non-judicial functions of justices' clerks.

Mr. John M. Taylor
No definitive list of the non-judicial functions of justices' clerks is possible. Section 28(3) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 states what the functions of a justices' clerk include, and section 28(4) of the Act goes on to state that subsection (3)…shall not be taken as defining or in any respect limiting the powers and duties belonging to a justices' clerk…".