SCHEDULE
The Committee of Magistrates—Constitution and Quorum
1.—(1) The members of the committee of magistrates who are to be chosen under section 13(3)(a) of the Administration of Justice Act 1964 by the lay justices for each petty sessional division shall be chosen at a meeting held in October.
(2) The members of the committee of magistrates who are to be chosen under section 13(3)(b) of the Administration of Justice Act 1964 by the members of the juvenile court panel for the inner London area and the City of London and by any chairmen of juvenile courts for that area and the City of London who are not members of that panel shall be chosen at a meeting held in October.
2. Nominations shall be permitted , but where voting is necessary it shall be by ballot and shall be so conducted that there shall be no disclosure of how individual justices have voted.
3. Where an equality of votes is found to exist between any candidates and the addition of a vote would entitle one of them to be elected, the person taking the chair at the meeting shall forthwith decide between those candidates by lot.
4. If for any reason the requisite number of members of the committee of magistrates is not appointed at the proper time or a vacancy occurs thereon, the appropriate justices may at any subsequent meeting appoint to the vacancy and paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Schedule shall apply to the appointment.
5. The quorum of the committee of magistrates shall be seven members.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Note is not part of the Order, but is intended to indicate its general purport.)
This Order makes a number of consequential, transitional and supple mentary provisions in connection with certain provisions of the Administration of Justice Act 1964 which relate to the London area .
Article 1 makes provision for the appointment, by the courts of quarter sessions for the inner London area and the Middlesex area, of justices to serve on visiting committees for prisons in the London area. Article 2 adapts references in section 42 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949 section 23 of the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 and section 10 of the Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1952 to a county or borough council to include the Greater London Council. Article 3 and the Schedule regulate the constitution and quorum of the committee of magistrates for inner London .
Articles 4 to 7 make transitional provisions in respect of the term of office of persons who are members of certain bodies. Article 8 makes transitional provisions about the trial of persons who stand committed under section 5 of the Vagrancy Act 1824 to the court of quarter sessions for a county or borough abolished by the London Government Act 1963.
