This is the original version (as it was originally enacted). This item of legislation is currently only available in its original format.
2(1)The existing commission of the peace for any county and the supplemental list kept in connection therewith shall have effect for the county within the meaning of subsection (1) of section ten of this Act, and any existing appointment made in connection with the commission (including that of custos rotulorum and of any justice appointed otherwise than by the commission) and any existing appointment made by or in connection with any court of quarter sessions for the county or any division thereof shall have effect accordingly.
(2)The schedule to any existing commission of the peace for a borough losing its commission, or for the liberty of Ripon, and the supplemental list kept in connection with any such commission shall be treated for the purposes of the foregoing sub-paragraph as having formed part respectively of the schedule to the existing commission of the peace for the county in which the borough or liberty is situated and of the supplemental list kept in connection with that commission.
(3)The foregoing sub-paragraphs shall apply in relation to East and West Suffolk, to East and West Sussex and to Hampshire and the Isle of Wight as if they had been separate counties for the purposes of justices before the coming into force of section ten of this Act, and as if the existing commissions of the peace for the counties of Suffolk, Sussex and Southampton respectively had been issued separately for each of the two divisions thereof referred to in this sub-paragraph and the supplemental list kept in connection with any of those commissions had been a list for each of the two divisions.
(4)With respect to any such appointments in the counties of Suffolk, Sussex and Southampton as are referred to in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph the following provisions shall have effect:—
(a)the appointment of a custos rotulorum shall have effect as if made for each division of the county;
(b)any other appointments relating to the whole county shall have effect in Suffolk and Sussex as if made for each division thereof, and in the county of Southampton (subject to the following provisions of this Schedule) as if made for Hampshire;
(c)appointments made by the court of quarter sessions for the county of Southampton shall have effect as if made by a court of quarter sessions for the division to which they relate or, if they relate to the whole county, by a court of quarter sessions for Hampshire.
3(1)The existing commission of the peace for any of the cinque ports, other than a borough losing its commission, shall have effect for the borough only exclusive of any part of the members and liberties of the cinque port outside the limits of the borough; and any supplemental list kept in connection therewith, the existing grant of quarter sessions to the borough and any appointment in connection with the commission or grant shall have effect accordingly.
(2)This paragraph shall apply in relation to the ancient town of Rye as if it were one of the cinque ports.
4A person who has taken the oaths required by law as justice of the peace for any area shall not be required to take any oath on becoming by virtue of any of the foregoing paragraphs a justice of the peace for a different area.
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. This site additionally contains content derived from EUR-Lex, reused under the terms of the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of documents from the EU institutions. For more information see the EUR-Lex public statement on re-use.
