Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 1874
YOUTH COURTS AND OFFENDERS
The Inner London Youth Courts (Selection of Chairmen) (Amendment) Order 2000
Made
14th July 2000
Coming into force in accordance with Article 1
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 to the Children and Young Persons Act 1933( 1 ) hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Inner London Youth Courts (Selection of Chairmen) (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on the day on which section 78 of the Access to Justice 1999( 2 ) comes into force.
2. The Inner London Youth Courts (Selection of Chairmen) Order 1990( 3 ) shall be amended by—
(a) the substitution in articles 6 and 9 for the words “Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate” of the words “Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate)”; and
(b) the substitution in articles 6, 9 and 12 for the words “stipendiary magistrate” of the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”.
Irvine of Lairg, C
14th July 2000
1993 c. 12 ; Schedule 2 was substituted by the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 (c. 37) , section 17(1) and Schedule 2; and paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 as so substituted was amended by the Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c. 42) , section 12.
1999 c. 22 . Section 78 comes into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor appoints under section 108(1) and substitutes for section 11 to 20 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) which provide for stipendiary magistrates, metropolitan stipendiary magistrates and a Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate new sections 10A to 10E which provide for District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) and a Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) in place of them; paragraph 22 of Schedule 14 provides for any person who is a stipendiary magistrate or a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate immediately before the time section 78 comes into force to be treated (unless he would have been required by reason of his age to vacate his office) as having been appointed to be a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) at that time.
S.I. 1990/1265 . Section 70(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53) provides that juvenile courts shall be renamed youth courts in any enactment or instrument.