The Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 has effect subject to the following amendments.

In section 70 (jurisdiction in inner London for family proceedings), in subsection (3), in the definition of “inner London petty sessions area”, for the words after “means” substitute “ any petty sessions area falling wholly or partly within the area consisting of the inner London boroughs and the City of London. ”

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