The Local Government (Magistrates' Courts etc.) Order 1985

4.  The Petty Sessional Divisions (Review) Regulations 1952 shall be amended as follows—

(a) In Regulation 2(1)(a), for the words “the County Council” there shall be substituted the words, “the non-metropolitan county council or, where the draft order or report is submitted by a committee for a metropolitan district or outer London borough, the clerk to the metropolitan district council or outer London borough council”;

(b) In Regulation 4(a), for the words “the county council” there shall be substituted the words, “the non-metropolitan county council or, where the order relates to a metropolitan district or outer London borough, the metropolitan district council or outer London borough council”;

(c) In Regulation 5(1), for the definition of “committee” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““committee” means a magistrates' courts committee established under section 19 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 acting for a non-metropolitan county, a metropolitan district or an outer London borough;”