The Local Government Changes for England (Magistrates' Courts) Regulations 1996

Magistrates' Courts Act 1980

2.—(1) In section 1(8) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(1) for the words from “any county” to the end there shall be substituted “any commission area in England or preserved county in Wales”.

(2) In section 2(1) and (3) of that Act—

(a) for “a county in England, a preserved county in Wales, a London commission area or the City of London” there shall be substituted “a commission area in England or a preserved county in Wales”;

(b) for “the county, the preserved county, the London commission area or the City” there shall be substituted “the commission area or preserved county”.

(3) In section 3(4) of that Act for the words from “any county” to the end there shall be substituted “any commission area in England or preserved county in Wales”.

(4) In section 97(1) of that Act—

(a) for “any county, any London commission area or the City of London” there shall be substituted “any commission area in England or any county in Wales”;

(b) for “that county, that London commission area or the City” there shall be substituted “that commission area or county”.

(5) In section 97(1A) of that Act, for “that county, that London commission area or the City”there shall be substituted “that commission area or county”.

(6) In section 116(3) of that Act, for the words from “any county” to the end there shall be substituted “commission areas in England and counties in Wales”.

(7) The following shall be inserted after the definition of “bail in criminal proceedings” in section 150(1) of that Act—

““commission area”, in relation to England, has the meaning given by section 1 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979.”.

(1)

1980 c. 43, as amended by paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19).