49Appointment of justices' clerks for youth courts and family proceedings courts
(1)The inner London magistrates' courts committee shall appoint one or more justices' clerks for the youth courts and family proceedings courts for the metropolitan area.
(2)Subsections (2) to (4), (5)(b), (6) and (7) of section 42 above apply to any justices' clerk appointed under subsection (1) above as they apply to a justices' clerk for a petty sessions area, but with the substitution for any reference to the magistrates for a petty sessions area of a reference to the justices of the peace who are members of the youth court panel for the metropolitan area or (as the case may be) of a family panel for that area, other than any such justice whose name is for the time being entered on the supplemental list.
(3)In this section—
“the inner London magistrates' courts committee” means the magistrates' courts committee for an area consisting of or including the whole of the inner London area or, if there is no such committee, all the magistrates courts' committees for areas which consist of or include any part of the inner London area acting jointly; and
“the metropolitan area” means the inner London area and the City of London.