The Petty Sessions Areas (Divisions and Names) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Petty Sessions Areas (Divisions and Names) Regulations 1988 in consequence of amendments to sections 24 and 24B of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 effected by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994, the Local Government Changes for England (Magistrates' Courts) Regulations 1996 and the Magistrates' Courts (Wales) (Consequences of Local Government Changes) Order 1996. The effects of the amendments are:

(a) to apply the regulations to all magistrates' courts committees outside inner London and the City of London, whether or not the areas of those committees coincide with those of local authorities;

(b) to allow for objections from local authorities whose areas include any part of the committee area or petty sessions area to which proposals under those sections relate.