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<p /> <p>I have interpreted ‘Local magistrate advisory boards’ to mean Advisory Committees
on Justices of the Peace, the bodies responsible for recruiting and selecting magistrates
in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>To enable their work to be informed by a range
of knowledge and experience, Advisory Committees are composed of both magistrates
and non-magistrates. At least one third of each Committee’s members should be non-magistrates.</p><p>
</p><p>The attached table contains the names of each Committee’s members and indicates
which of those members are magistrates.</p>
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