The Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1995

Commencement of provisions for certain areas on 1st April 1995, 1st October 1995 and 1st January 1996

5.—(1) Section 72(6) of the 1994 Act shall come into force on 1st April 1995 only in relation to the magistrates' courts committee for the inner London area.

(2) Section 72(6) of the 1994 Act so far as it inserts section 22(9) to (11) in the 1979 Act shall come into force on 1st October 1995, except in relation to the magistrates' courts committee for the inner London area.

(3) Section 72(6) of the 1994 Act so far as it inserts section 22(8) in the 1979 Act shall come into force on 1st January 1996, except in relation to the magistrates' courts committee for the inner London area.

(4) Section 75 of the 1994 Act so far as it inserts section 24D(5) in the 1979 Act shall come into force on 1st April 1995, except in relation to appointments of justices' chief executives by the magistrates' courts committees for Hampshire, Kent and Lincolnshire.

(5) Section 83(1) of the 1994 Act (which substitutes new sections 55 and 56 in the 1979 Act) shall come into force on 1st April 1995, except in relation to the inner London area.

(6) Section 91(1) of the 1994 Act, so far as it gives effect to paragraph 19(1) and (3) of Schedule 8 to the 1994 Act, and paragraph 19(1) and (3) of that Schedule, so far as it substitutes in subsection (8) of section 59 of the 1979 Act a new definition of responsible authority for the purposes of that section, shall come into force on 1st April 1995, except in relation to the inner London area.