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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 178

Assessors for county court in appeals from juvenile courts.

178.(1) Where a county court deals with a case on appeal from a juvenile
court, the judge shall, where practicable, be assisted by two persons selected
from one or more than one of the appropriate juvenile court panels, who shall
sit with him and act as assessors.

(2) Where in any case only one such person is available, the judge may sit
with that person; and where in any case no such person is available and it
appears to the judge that an adjournment would not be in the interests of
justice, he may sit alone.

(3) The power of the [Lord Chancellor] to make regulations under paragraph 8
of Schedule 2 shall include power to make regulations making provision for
selecting persons from juvenile court panels to act under subsection (1) and
... for securing their presence on the bench and for the payment to them by
the [Lord Chancellor] of allowances corresponding to the allowances mentioned
in paragraph 6 of that Schedule, and the regulations shall secure that, so far
as practicable, of any two such persons assisting the judge one at least is a
woman.

(4) In this section

"the appropriate juvenile court panels" means the panel formed under
paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 for the ... county court division for which the
county court is held and the panel for any other county [court division] which
adjoins that county [court division];

"judge" has the same meaning as in the County Courts Act (Northern Ireland)
1959.

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