PART 2DISTRICT COURTS
Repeals
3. The following provisions of the 1975 Act are repealed:
(a)section 9;
(b)section 9A, including regulations made under that section(1);
(c)sections 10 to 16;
(d)subsections (3) and (4) of section 17;
(e)paragraphs (b) and (d) of section 18(4);
(f)in paragraph (e) of section 18(4), from the words “and of any justice” to the end.
Remaining district courts
4.—(1) The following provisions of the 1995 Act, all of which refer to JP courts, shall apply to remaining district courts to the same extent as they apply to JP courts:
(a)section 25(2C)(a);
(b)section 137D(1)(a);
(c)section 156B(2)(b)(i);
(d)section 301A(2)(b)(ii).
(2) For the purpose of remaining district courts:
(a)the local authority that has responsibility for making payments under section 17(6) of the 1975 Act is the local authority in whose local authority area the JP sits;
(b)the duties of clerks of the peace set out in section 18 of the 1975 Act are to be exercised in relation to JPs sitting in their local authority areas.
The Justices of the Peace (Tribunal) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/217) were made under section 9A of the 1975 Act.