Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for the transfer of certain administrative functions from justices' clerks to justices' chief executives under section 90 (transfer of clerks' functions to chief executives) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) by amending the following provisions:

The Licensing Act 1964, section 29(1), (2) and (3) and paragraph 11 of Schedule 1; the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, section 77(6); the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, section 46(3), (5), (6) and (8); and the Powers of the Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000, sections 41(10), 46(12), 60(11) and 163.