The Local Justice Areas Order 2016

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order creates fifteen new local justice areas by combining certain existing local justice areas. It amends the list of local justice areas in the Local Justice Areas Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/554) to reflect changes.

The new local justice areas and the existing areas they combine are as follows:

• Avon and Somerset replaces the areas of Bristol, North Avon and Somerset.

• Cardiff replaces the areas of Newcastle and Ogmore and Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

• Cheshire replaces the areas of North Cheshire, South and East Cheshire, and West Cheshire.

• Cleveland replaces the areas of Hartlepool and Teesside.

• East Hampshire replaces the areas of South East Hampshire and South Hampshire.

• Humber replaces the areas of East Yorkshire, Grimsby and Cleethorpes, Hull and Holderness, and North Lincolnshire.

• Merseyside replaces the areas of Liverpool and Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral.

• Mid Wales replaces the areas of Brecknock and Radnorshire and Glamorgan Valleys.

• Northamptonshire replaces the areas of Corby, Kettering, and Northampton, Daventry and Towcester, and Wellingborough.

• North Central Wales replaces the areas of Conwy and Denbighshire.

• North West Wales replaces the areas of Gwynedd and Ynys Môn/ Anglesey.

• South Yorkshire replaces the areas of Barnsley District, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield.

• Staffordshire replaces the areas of Central and Southwest Staffordshire, North Staffordshire, and South East Staffordshire.

• Surrey replaces the areas of North Surrey, South East Surrey, and South West Surrey.

• West Yorkshire replaces the areas of Bradford and Keighley, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds District, and Wakefield and Pontefract.

The Order comes into force on 14th October 2016 for the purposes of enabling persons to be elected on the basis of the new local justice areas; and for filling any vacancies of chairman or deputy chairman which arise prior to 1st April 2017. The Order comes into force on 1 April 2017 for all other purposes.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.