The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) Regulations 1999
These Regulations replace the Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) Regulations 1994. They repeat the provisions for the constitution and quorum of magistrates' courts committees and introduce new provisions. These are:obligations on the selection panel to publish selection criteria, to select only those candidates who meet the criteria; and, if a candidate is not selected because he has not met the selection criteria, to identify the criteria that the candidate has not met;an obligation on the selection panel to determine before selection by vote how to proceed if the votes are equal for any candidate; anda power for the selection panel, if there are insufficient candidates to fill the number of vacancies on the committee, to seek the committee’s agreement to a lesser number of members. If this is not agreed, the selection panel have a power (instead of an obligation) to appoint a justice to the vacancies.