Justices of the Peace Act 1979

2 London commission areas

(1) Subject to the provisions of section 3 of this Act, the following areas of Greater London, that is to say—

(a) an area to be known as the " inner London area ", consisting of the inner London boroughs ;

(b) an area to be known as the " north-east London area ", consisting of the London boroughs of Barking, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest;

(c) an area to be known as the " south-east London area ", consisting of the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Croydon;

(d) an area to be known as the " south-west London area ", consisting of the London boroughs of Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames and Sutton; and

(e) an area to be known as the " Middlesex area ", consisting of the London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon and Hounslow,

are in this Act referred to as " London commission areas ", and the areas specified in paragraphs (b) to (e) above are in this Act referred to as the " outer London areas ".

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a London commission area shall be deemed to be a non-metropolitan county for all purposes of the law relating to commissions of the peace, justices of the peace, magistrates' courts, magistrates' courts committees, the keeper of the rolls, justices' clerks and matters connected with any of those matters ; and references to a county in any enactment passed or instrument made before the 10th June 1964, and references to a non-metropolitan county in any enactment or instrument as amended or modified by or under the [1972 c. 70.] Local Government Act 1972, shall be construed accordingly.

(3) Subsection (2) above shall not apply to any enactment (including any enactment contained in this Act) to which apart from this subsection it would apply and which expressly refers in the same context both—

(a) to a county or counties or to a non-metropolitan county or non-metropolitan counties, and

(b) to a London commission area or London commission areas or any of those areas ;

and the generality of subsection (2) above shall not be taken to be prejudiced by any enactment to which by virtue of this subsection that subsection does not apply.