2005 No. 554
MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Local Justice Areas Order 2005
Made 8th March 2005
Laid before Parliament 9th March 2005
Coming into force 1st April 2005

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 8 of the Courts Act 2003, makes the following Order:
2003 c. 39.

1 Citation and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Local Justice Areas Order 2005 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.

2 Local Justice Areas
The local justice areas into which England and Wales is divided are specified in the Schedule to this Order.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Christopher Leslie Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for Constitutional Affairs 8th March 2005
SCHEDULE

Local Justice Areas in England & Wales
Alnwick
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Barking and Dagenham
Barnet
Barnsley District
Bath and Wansdyke
Batley and Dewsbury
Bedford and Mid Bedfordshire
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Beverley and the Wolds
Bexley
Birmingham
Blackburn, Darwen and Ribble Valley
Bolton
Boston
Bourne and Stamford
Bradford
Brent
Bridlington
Bristol
Bromley
Bromsgrove and Redditch
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale
Bury
Calderdale
Cambridge
Camden and Islington
Cardiff
Carlisle and District
Carmarthen
Central and South West Staffordshire
Central Buckinghamshire
Central Devon
Central Hertfordshire
Central Kent
Central Norfolk
Ceredigion
Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston
Chorley
City of London
City of Salford
City of Westminster
Conwy
Corby
Coventry District
Croydon
Cynon Valley
Daventry
De Brychieniog
De Maldwyn
Denbighshire
Dinefwr
Doncaster
Drayton
Dudley
Ealing
East Berkshire
East Cambridgeshire
East Cornwall
East Dorset
East Hertfordshire
East Kent
Eden
Elloes
Enfield
Fenland
Flintshire
Furness and District
Fylde Coast
Gainsborough
Gateshead District
Gloucestershire
Goole and Howdenshire
Grantham
Great Yarmouth
Greenwich and Lewisham
Grimsby and Cleethorpes
Gwynedd
Hackney and Tower Hamlets
Halton
Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea
Haringey
Harrogate
Harrow Gore
Hartlepool
Havering
Herefordshire
High Peak
Hillingdon
Houghton-le-Spring
Hounslow
Huddersfield
Hull and Holderness
Huntingdonshire
Hyndburn
Isle of Wight
Keighley
Kettering
Kidderminster
Kingston-upon-Thames
Knowsley
Lambeth and Southwark
Lancaster
Langbaurgh East
Leeds District
Leicester
Lincoln District
Liverpool
Llanelli
Loughborough
Luton and South Bedfordshire
Macclesfield
Manchester City
Mansfield
Market Bosworth
Market Harborough and Lutterworth
Melton, Belvoir and Rutland
Mendip
Merthyr Tydfil
Merton
Mid-North Essex
Mid-South Essex
Milton Keynes
Miskin
Neath Port Talbot
New Forest
Newark and Southwell
Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Newcastle and Ogmore
Newham
North East Essex
North West Essex
North Avon
North Devon
North Durham
North East Derbyshire and Dales
North East Hampshire
North East Suffolk
North Hertfordshire
North Kent
North Lincolnshire
North Norfolk
North Pembrokeshire
North Sefton District
North Somerset
North Staffordshire
North Surrey
North Tyneside District
North West Gwent
North West Hampshire
North West Surrey
North West Wiltshire
Northallerton and Richmond
Northampton
Northern Oxfordshire
Norwich
Nottingham
Oldham
Ormskirk
Oswestry
Oxford
Peterborough
Plymouth District
Pontefract
Preston
Radnorshire and North Brecknock
Reading
Redbridge
Richmond-upon-Thames
Rochdale, Middleton and Heywood
Rotherham
Scarborough
Sedgemoor
Selby
Sheffield
Shrewsbury
Skegness
Skipton
Sleaford
Solihull
South East Essex
South West Essex
South Cheshire
South Devon
South Durham
South East Gwent
South East Hampshire
South East Northumberland
South East Staffordshire
South East Suffolk
South East Surrey
South East Wiltshire
South Hampshire
South Lakeland
South Norfolk
South Pembrokeshire
South Ribble
South Sefton District
South Shropshire
South Somerset
South Tyneside District
South West Surrey
South Worcestershire
Southampton
Southern Derbyshire
Southern Oxfordshire
St Helens
Stockport
Stourbridge and Halesowen
Sunderland
Sussex (Central)
Sussex (Eastern)
Sussex (Northern)
Sussex (Western)
Sutton
Sutton Coldfield
Swansea County
Swindon
Tameside
Taunton Deane and West Somerset
Teesside
Telford and Bridgnorth
Towcester
Trafford
Tynesdale
Vale of Glamorgan
Vale Royal
Wakefield
Walsall and Aldridge
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Warley
Warrington
Warwickshire
Wellingborough
Welshpool
West Allerdale and Keswick
West Berkshire
West Bromwich
West Cornwall
West Dorset
West Hertfordshire
West Norfolk
West Suffolk
Whitehaven
Wigan and Leigh
Wirral
Wolds
Wolverhampton
Worksop and Retford
Wrexham Maelor
Wycombe and Beaconsfield
Ynys Mòn/Anglesey
York
Article 2

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order specifies the local justice areas into which England and Wales is divided under section 8 of the Courts Act 2003. The Act requires the first Order under section 8 to specify as local justice areas the areas which were petty sessions areas before 1st April 2005.
Maps showing the local justice areas are available for inspection at any reasonable time at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, Selborne House, 54-60 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QW.