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Changes over time for: Section 56
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Changes to legislation:
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Courts Act 1971, Section 56.
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56 Minor and consequential amendments, transitional provisions and repeals.E+W
(1)Schedule 8 to this Act (which contains consequential and other amendments) shall have effect.
(2)In the enactments listed in Schedule 9 to this Act (which confer jurisdiction transferred to the Crown Court) for any reference to quarter sessions there shall be substituted a reference to the Crown Court.
This subsection applies to references to quarter sessions however expressed and in particular to any reference to “the next court of quarter sessions”, or to the quarter sessions for any particular area, or to any sessions which, by section 13(14) of the Interpretation Act 1889, were included in the expression “court of quarter sessions”.
(3)Schedule 10 to this Act, which contains transitional provisions, shall have effect.
(4)The enactments specified in Schedule 11 to this Act (which includes certain obsolete or unnecessary enactments) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, but subject to any proviso at the end of that Schedule.
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