The Magistrates' Courts (Wales) (Consequences of Local Government Changes) Order 1996

4.  Where by virtue of an order under section 55 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 one or more commission areas are created, abolished or altered, article 3 shall have effect in relation to that change with the following modifications:

(a)for every reference to 1st April 1996 there shall be substituted the date on which the order comes into force;

(b)for the reference to section 1 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 there shall be substituted a reference to the order;

(c)at the end of paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the words “until such time as commissions of the peace for the new commission areas are granted”.