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CH. 37

Section 17.

Children and Young Persons Act 1963

SCHEDULE 2

CONSTITUTION OF JUVENILE COURTS

PART I

OUTSIDE METROPOLITAN AREA

Juvenile court panels

1. The following provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall have effect as respects any area outside the metropolitan stipendiary court area and the City of London.

2. A justice shall not be qualified to sit as a member of a juvenile court unless he is a member of a juvenile court panel, that is to say, a panel of justices specially qualified to deal with juvenile cases.

3. Subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Schedule, a juvenile court panel shall be formed for every petty sessions area.

Combined juvenile court panels

4. A magistrates' courts committee may make recommendations to the Secretary of State-

(a) for the formation of a combined juvenile court panel for two

or more petty sessions areas, or

(b) for the dissolution of any such combined juvenile court

panel,

if the committee's area comprises at least one of the petty sessions areas concerned.

5. It shall be the duty of the magistrates' courts committee for any area, if directed to do so by the Secretary of State, to review the functioning of juvenile courts in their area and on completion of the review to submit to the Secretary of State either a report making such recommendations as are mentioned in paragraph 4 of this Schedule or a report giving reasons for making no such recom- mendations.

6. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule-

(a) where a magistrates' courts committee make such recom- mendations to the Secretary of State, he may make an order giving effect to them subject to any modifications he thinks fit; and

(b) where a magistrates' courts committee fail to comply within six months with a direction of the Secretary of State under the preceding paragraph, or the Secretary of State is dis- satisfied with the report submitted in pursuance of such a direction, he may make such order as he thinks fit for the purposes mentioned in paragraph 4 of this Schedule.

Effect of order establishing combined panel

7. Where a combined juvenile court panel is formed for any petty sessions areas any justice who is a member of the panel may exercise in relation to each of the areas any jurisdiction exercisable by him as a member of a juvenile court.

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