Commentary on Sections: Part 2 Fines officers and designated officers Section 37: Designated officers and magistrates’ courts
89.Section 37 allows the Lord Chancellor to designate members of staff of the courts agency in order to perform certain statutory functions in relation to the business of the magistrates’ courts. Many of these functions are currently assigned to JCEs and are administrative in nature. Schedule 8 makes appropriate consequential amendments to other Acts of Parliament.