Commencement of provisions on 1st April 19954

Subject to articles 5 and 6, the following provisions of the 1994 Act shall come into force on 1st April 1995—

a

section 72 (supplementary provisions as to magistrates' courts committees);

b

section 73 (general powers and duties of magistrates' courts committees);

c

section 75 (justices' chief executives, justices' clerks and staff);

d

section 76 (appointment and removal of justices' clerks);

e

section 77 (justices' chief executives and justices' clerks to be employed under contracts of service);

f

section 80 (organisation of justices' clerks in inner London area);

g

section 81 (division of work in inner London area);

h

section 83(1) (administrative and financial arrangements for magistrates' courts);

i

section 83(2) so far as it applies to section 57 of the 1979 Act;

j

section 84 (local authority land appropriated to magistrates' courts purposes);

k

section 88(6) (default powers);

l

section 91(1) (magistrates' courts: minor and consequential amendments), so far as it relates to the entries in Parts I and II of Schedule 8 referred to in article 7 below;

m

5section 91(2) and (3);

n

section 93 (repeals) so far as it relates to the entries in Part II of Schedule 9 (magistrates' courts: repeals) referred to in article 8 below.