The Domestic Courts (Constitution) (Amendment) Rules 1988
These Rules amend the Domestic Courts (Constitution) Rules 1979. Under the 1979 Rules domestic court panels are appointed for petty sessions area every three years, but a magistrates' courts committee may make a direction for the formation or dissolution of a combined panel in respect of two or more petty sessions areas to take effect at the beginning of each three year period. These Rules enable such a direction to take effect during a current three year period of appointment, and provide that the members of a panel formed under such a direction will be appointed in the first instance until the end of the current three year period and thereafter every three years.