1.  This Order may be cited as the Petty Sessional Divisions (Northamptonshire) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1987, except that for the purposes of paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to this Order, this Order shall come into force forthwith.

2.  In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires, the expression “division” means petty sessional division and any reference to a justice for a division shall be construed as a reference to a justice of the peace who ordinarily acts, or, as the case may be, will on or after 1st April 1987 ordinarily act, in and for that division.

3.—(1) The eight divisions of Brackley, Corby, Daventry, Kettering, Mid-Northants, Oundle and Thrapston, Towcester and Wellingborough shall be abolished and—

(a) from the area comprised in the division of Corby together with the parishes set out in Part I of Schedule 1 to this Order there shall be constituted a new division to be known as the Corby division;

(b) from the area comprised in the division of Daventry together with the parishes set out in Part II of Schedule 1 to this Order there shall be constituted a new division to be known as the Daventry division;

(c) from the area comprised in the division of Kettering together with the parishes set out in Part III of Schedule 1 to this Order there shall be constituted a new division to be known as the Kettering division;

(d) from the area comprised in the division of Towcester together with the parishes set out in Part IV of Schedule 1 to this Order there shall be constituted a new division to be known as the Towcester division;

(e) from the area comprised in the division of Wellingborough together with the parish of Great Addington there shall be constituted a new division to be known as the Wellingborough division.

(2) The divisions specified in column (1) of Schedule 2 to this Order shall, in consequence of the foregoing paragraph of this Article, comprise the areas specified opposite to those divisions in column (2) of the said Schedule.

4.  The transitional and other consequential provisions set out in Schedule 3 to this Order shall have effect in connection with the provisions of Article 3 of this Order.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Home Office

10th February 1987