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5.—(1) Subject to any order made under section 55 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, every petty sessions area which, immediately before 1st April 1996, was a petty sessional division of a county in Wales shall continue in existence on and after that date as a petty sessional division of the preserved county corresponding to that county.
(2) Subject to any order made under section 69 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994(1), every magistrates' courts committee for a county in Wales existing immediately before 1st April 1996 shall continue in existence on and after that date as the magistrates' courts committee for the preserved county corresponding to that county.
(3) In this article a preserved county corresponds to a county if it comprises all or most of the area of that county as it existed immediately before 1st April 1996.
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