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In forcePurposes
Part 1Preliminary
1 Purposes
The main purposes of this Act are—
(a)
to provide for the appointment of justices of the peace and bail justices, together to be known as honorary justices; and
(b)
to specify requirements of honorary justices in relation to the provision of information and training; and
(c)
to provide for a code of conduct applying to honorary justices; and
(d)
to set out the procedures for the suspension or removal from office of honorary justices; and
(e)
to provide for the use of titles by current and retired honorary justices; and
(f)
to repeal Part 6 of the Magistrates' Court Act 1989.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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