1.7 The Commission should receive a single submission on behalf of the magistracy from the Chief Justice or a person designated by the Chief Justice relating to recommendations in respect of the remuneration of magistrates, in accordance with section 12(1)(c)(ii), read with section 8(3)of the Magistrates Act, and should not consult with or receive submissions from individual or groups of magistrates relating to the remuneration of magistrates, as seems to have become the practice; considering the injunction of the Van Rooyen case that collective bargaining practices should be discouraged at this level;