The Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) (Amendment) Rules 2001
These Rules amend the Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) Rules 1979 so as to:remove the requirement that to be employed as a clerk in court after 31st December 2008, a court clerk employed on 31st December 1998, who had not attained the age of 40 at that date, must qualify as a barrister or solicitor or pass all the examinations for one of those professions; andprovide that a person employed as a clerk in court before 1st January 1999 who is not qualified under rule 4(1)(a) (that is to say, as a solicitor or barrister, or by having passed all the examinations for one of those professions) may accept further contracts of employment as a clerk in court, regardless of any interval between successive contracts.