The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2001

Commencement of provisions of Access to Justice Act 1999

2.  The following provisions of the Act come into force on 1st April 2001:

(a) in Part V:

(i) to the extent that they are not already in force, section 83 and Schedule 12 (Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority);

(ii) section 90 and Schedule 13 (transfer of clerks' functions to chief executives); and

(iii) section 91 (accounting etc. functions of chief executives); and

(b) in Part VI:

(i) sections 98 (justices and clerks: immunity from costs), 99 (justices and clerks: indemnity), and 100 (assistant justices' clerks: immunity from action); and

(ii) so far as they extend to England and Wales and Northern Ireland only, sections 101 (General Commissioners: immunity from action), 102 (General Commissioners; immunity from costs and expenses), and 103 (General Commissioners and clerks: indemnity); and

(c) in Part VII:

(i) so far as they have not already been effected, the repeals in Part V(6) of Schedule 15;

(ii) the repeals in Part V(7) of Schedule 15;

(iii) the repeal in Part VI of Schedule 15; and

(iv) so far as it relates to those repeals, section 106.