The Local Justice Areas Order 2011

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Justice Areas Order 2011.

(2) This Order comes into force on 19th May 2011 for the purposes of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order.

(3) For all other purposes this Order comes into force on 1st January 2012.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“existing area” means a local justice area as it exists immediately before 1st January 2012;

“new area” means a local justice area constituted by this Order.

Any reference to a justice for an area is to be construed as a reference to a justice of the peace who ordinarily acts, or as the case may be, will, on or after 1st January 2012, ordinarily act, in and for that area.

New Areas

3.  The existing areas named in the left hand column of Table 1 are combined to become the new area named in the corresponding right hand column.

Table 1

Existing Areas	New Area
LONDON
Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon	West London
Barking, Havering and Redbridge	North East London
Barnet, Brent and Harrow Gore	North West London
Kingston, Merton, Richmond-upon-Thames and Wandsworth	South West London
Croydon, Lambeth and Southwark, and Sutton	South London
Greenwich and Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley	South East London
Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea, City of London and City of Westminster	Central London
Camden and Islington, Enfield and Haringey	North London
Hackney and Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest	East London
MIDLANDS
Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham	Birmingham
Ashby de-la-Zouch and Market Bosworth	Ashby de-la-Zouch and Market Bosworth
Daventry, Towcester and Northampton	Northampton, Daventry and Towcester
Leicester, Market Harborough and Lutterworth	Leicester, Market Harborough and Lutterworth
Loughborough and Melton, Belvoir and Rutland	Loughborough, Melton, Belvoir and Rutland
Newark and Southwell, and Nottingham	Nottingham and Newark
Worksop and Retford, and Mansfield	Mansfield and Worksop
NORTH EAST
Langbaurgh East and Teesside	Teesside
Houghton-le-Spring and Sunderland	City of Sunderland
Tynedale and Newcastle-upon-Tyne District	Newcastle and Tynedale
Alnwick and South East Northumberland	Mid and South East Northumberland
Beverley and the Wolds, Bridlington, and Goole and Howdenshire	East Yorkshire
Bradford and Keighley	Bradford and Keighley
Wakefield and Pontefract	Wakefield and Pontefract
Batley and Dewsbury, and Huddersfield	Kirklees
York and Selby	York and Selby
Harrogate and Skipton	Harrogate and Skipton
NORTH WEST
Liverpool and Knowsley	Liverpool and Knowsley
Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston, and Vale Royal	West Cheshire
North Sefton District and South Sefton District	Sefton
Carlisle and District, and Eden	North Cumbria
West Allerdale and Keswick, and Whitehaven	West Cumbria
Blackburn, Darwen and Ribble Valley, and Hyndburn	East Lancashire
Bury and Rochdale, and Middleton and Heywood	Bury and Rochdale
Manchester City and City of Salford	Manchester and Salford
SOUTH EAST
West Hertfordshire and Central Hertfordshire	West and Central Hertfordshire
North Hertfordshire and East Hertfordshire	North and East Hertfordshire
Milton Keynes, Wycombe and Beaconsfield, and Central Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire
Southern Oxfordshire, Northern Oxfordshire and Oxford	Oxfordshire
East Berkshire, West Berkshire and Reading	Berkshire
Peterborough and Fenland	North Cambridgeshire
East Cambridgeshire and Cambridge	South Cambridgeshire
Mid-North Essex, North West Essex and North East Essex	North Essex
Mid-South Essex, South West Essex and South East Essex	South Essex
Central Norfolk, North Norfolk, South Norfolk, West Norfolk, Great Yarmouth and Norwich	Norfolk
SOUTH WEST
Central Devon and North Devon	North and East Devon
East Cornwall and West Cornwall	Cornwall
Plymouth District and South Devon	South and West Devon
Taunton Deane and West Somerset, and Sedgemoor	Taunton Deane, West Somerset and Sedgemoor
New Forest and Southampton	West Hampshire
North East Hampshire and North West Hampshire	North Hampshire
WALES
De Brycheiniog and Radnor, and North Brecknock	Brecknock and Radnorshire
Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan	Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan
Carmarthen, Dinefwr and Llanelli	Carmarthenshire
Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire	Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire

Division of Areas

4.—(1) The existing area of North West Surrey is divided between the two existing areas of North Surrey and South West Surrey in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) The area of Runnymede Borough Council is added to the existing area of North Surrey.

(3) The areas of Woking Borough Council and Surrey Heath District Council respectively are added to the existing area of South West Surrey.

Amendments to the Local Justice Area Order 2005

5.  The Schedule set out at Schedule 1 to this Order is substituted for the Schedule to the Local Justice Areas Order 2005(1).

Consequential and transitional provisions

6.  The consequential and transitional provisions set out in Schedule 2 to this Order have effect.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

J Djanogly

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Justice

26th April 2011