Justices of the Peace Act 1949

South Wales stipendiaries

8(1)The Merthyr Tydfil Stipendiary Justice Acts, 1843 to 1907, so far as they relate to clerks shall cease to have effect, and any clerk previously appointed thereunder shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as clerk to the justices for the petty sessional divisions of Caerphilly Higher and Miskin Higher of the county of Glamorgan and as clerk to the justices of the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil and any assistant or deputy clerk so appointed shall be treated for those purposes as a person employed by the clerk to assist him in the duties appertaining to his clerkships.

(2)The Glamorgan county council and the Merthyr Tydfil county borough council shall provide any accommodation and other things required for the stipendiary magistrate under the said Acts and for the said clerk under the powers of this Act and any provision in that behalf of the said Acts shall cease to have effect.

(3)The stipendiary magistrate under the said Acts shall be by virtue of his office a justice of the peace for any non-county borough having for the time being a separate commission of the peace and magistrates' courts committee which is situated wholly or partly within the area for which he acts.

(4)If under section three of the Merthyr Tydfil Stipendiary Justice Act, 1907, any alteration is made in the area for which the stipendiary magistrate acts, and as the result of the alteration that area (exclusive of any county borough and any such non-county borough as aforesaid) does not consist of one or more petty sessional divisions of the county of Glamorgan, the Secretary of State shall by statutory instrument make an order constituting the area (exclusive of any such borough) a petty sessional division or divisions of that county and making consequential provisions as to the remainder of the county, and subsections (4), (6) and (7) of section eighteen of this Act shall apply as if the order were an order under that section.

9(1)The provisions of the Pontypridd Stipendiary Magistrate Act, 1920, so far as they relate to clerks shall cease to have effect, and any clerk previously appointed thereunder shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as clerk to the justices for the Lower Miskin petty sessional division of the county of Glamorgan, and any assistant clerk so appointed shall be treated for this purpose as a person employed by the clerk to assist him in the duties appertaining to his clerkship.

(2)The Glamorgan county council shall provide any accommodation and other things required for the magistrate under the said Act of 1920 or for the said clerk under the powers of this Act, and any provision in that behalf of the said Act of 1920 shall cease to have effect.