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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 11

Removal of resident magistrates from office.

11.(1) Subject to subsection (2) and to section 1 of the Resident Magistrates'
Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1960, every resident magistrate shall hold his
office during good behaviour, but may be removed from his office by the Lord
Chancellor on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a resident magistrate holding office
immediately before 1st January 1974 but, subject to section 1 of the Resident
Magistrates' Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1960, every such
resident magistrate shall hold office during good behaviour subject to a power
of removal by Her Majesty on an address presented to Her Majesty by both
Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.]

Remuneration of resident magistrates.

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