The Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) (Amendment) Rules 1999
These Rules amend the Justices' Clerks (Qualifications of Assistants) Rules 1979 so as to provide that:an assistant who held a training certificate on 1st January 1999 may continue to act as a clerk in court for the duration of the course to which the certificate relates;an assistant whose employment is registered with the Law Society as a training contract may act as a clerk in court;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 a barrister, or by having passed all the examinations for one of those professions) may accept further contracts of employment as a clerk in court after that date, provided that the interval between two successive contracts does not exceed three months.