Part IV

Inner London area

79 Magistrates’ courts committee for inner London area.

(1)

Section 35 of the 1979 Act (under which the committee of magistrates for the inner London area is constituted) shall cease to have effect.

(2)

The body corporate constituted under that section shall remain in existence, but as a magistrates’ courts committee for the inner London area constituted in accordance with Part II of the 1979 Act.

(3)

Any reference in any document to the committee of magistrates shall have effect, in relation to any time after the commencement of subsection (2) above, as a reference to the magistrates’ courts committee for the inner London area.

(4)

In section 19(2) of the 1979 Act (areas to which magistrates’ courts committees relate) for the word “and" at the end of paragraph (c) there shall be substituted the words—

“(cc)

the inner London area; and”.

(5)

Section 38(2) of the 1979 Act (which confers administrative functions on the chief metropolitan stipendiary magistrate) shall cease to have effect.

(6)

Subsections (2) and (3) above have effect subject to any order made under section 69 of this Act after the commencement of subsection (2) above.