Commentary on Sections Part 1: Single Jurisdiction for County Courts and Magistrates’ Courts Section 3: Directions as to distribution of business
This section confers a power on the Lord Chief Justice to give directions detailing the arrangements for the distribution of business among the county courts and magistrates’ courts, and for the transfer of business from one court to another. The section also allows the Department to give directions as to the distribution among the chief clerks and clerks of petty sessions of the exercise of any functions conferred by any statutory provision on them.