25Relationship of Act to Magistrates Court, &c.

25 Relationship of Act to Magistrates Court, &c.

(1)  Despite the Magistrates Court Act 1987 or any other Act, the Chief Magistrate –

(a) may not assign to a Division of the Magistrates Court a magistrate who is the President or the Acting President; and

(b) may not arrange the business of the Tribunal; and

(c) may not issue practice directions in relation to the Tribunal; and

(d) may not direct, or impose a requirement on, a member of the Tribunal or a member of the staff of the Tribunal; and

(e) may not require a magistrate who is the President, or who is serving as the Acting President, to perform the functions, or exercise the powers, of a magistrate, and may not delegate to such a person any functions or powers of a magistrate; and

(f) may not otherwise perform or exercise, in relation to a magistrate who is the President, or who is serving as the Acting President, a function or power under an Act if the performance or exercise may interfere with the President’s, or Acting President’s, ability to appropriately perform or exercise a function or power under this Act or a function or power of the Tribunal under another Act.

(2)  Nothing in this section prevents a magistrate who is the President, or who is serving as the Acting President, from attending any training or professional development provided to magistrates generally, or from engaging, with the magistrate’s agreement, in other activities engaged in by magistrates generally.

(3)  Despite the Magistrates Court Act 1987 , the President is not a member of the Magistrates Rule Committee under that Act.