SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8 MAGISTRATES’ COURTS: MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Part I AMENDMENT OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ACT 1979

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(1)

Section 23 (powers and duties of committee as to petty sessional divisions) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1)—

(a)

the words from “acting" to “boroughs" shall cease to have effect, and

(b)

for the words “the county, district or borough" there shall be substituted the words “ their area ”.

(3)

In subsection (2) for the words “the county, district or borough, as the case may be" there shall be substituted the words “ their area ”.

(4)

In subsection (4) for the words “a non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district or any of the outer London boroughs", in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “ an area ”.