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Children and Young Persons Act 1963

CH. 37

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Restrictions on formation of combined panels

8. No order under this Schedule shall provide for the formation of a combined juvenile court panel for an area which includes-

(a) a county or part of a county and the whole or part of

another county; or

(b) two county boroughs.

9. An order under this Schedule providing for the formation of a combined juvenile court panel for an area which comprises a borough having a separate magistrates' courts committee shall not be made except with the consent of every magistrates' courts com- mittee the whole or part of whose area is included in the area for which the combined panel is formed.

Consultations and notices

10. A magistrates' courts committee, before submitting recom- mendations for an order under this Schedule, shall consult and, when submitting any such recommendations, shall give notice to-

(a) the justices acting for any petty sessions area concerned which is within the committee's area (except where the com- mittee's area is a borough); and

(b) any other magistrates' courts committee the whole or part

of whose area is concerned;

and shall also consult the said justices before commenting on any recommendations on which they are consulted under this paragraph by another magistrates' courts committee.

11. Where the Secretary of State proposes to make an order under this Schedule in a case where either no recommendations have been made to him or the proposed order departs from the recommenda- tions made to him, he shall send a copy of the proposed order to the magistrates' courts committee for any area the whole or part of which is concerned and to the justices acting for any petty sessions area concerned.

12. Where notice of recommendations or a copy of a proposed order is required to be sent under the preceding paragraphs to any justices or committee, the Secretary of State shall, before making an order, consider any representations made to him by the justices or committee, or by any juvenile court panel concerned, within one month from the time the notice was given or the copy of the proposed order was sent.

SCH. 2

PART II

METROPOLITAN AREA

13. The following provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall have effect as respects the metropolitan stipendiary court area and the City of London (in this Part of this Schedule referred to as the metropolitan area).

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