The Local Government (Petty Sessional Divisions etc.) Order 1973

10.—(1) Subject to Article 11 of this Order, anything done by or in relation to a justice, justices' clerk, magistrates' court or other body, not being a probation and after-care committee, exercising jurisdiction or functions in or for an existing petty sessions area shall be deemed to have been done by or in relation to a justice, justices' clerk, court or other body exercising jurisdiction or functions in or for the respective new petty sessions area (hereafter in this Article referred to as “the corresponding person or body”) and, in the case of a thing in the process of being done, may accordingly be continued by or in relation to the corresponding person or body.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, any justice for an existing petty sessions area who does not hold office as a justice of the peace for the respective new petty sessions area or the commission of the peace area in which the respective new petty sessions area is comprised shall be deemed to hold office as such.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above any petty sessional court-house for an existing petty sessions area which is outside the respective new petty sessions area shall be deemed to be in that new petty sessions area.