- Latest available (Revised)
- Original (As made)
The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Avon and Somerset) Amalgamation Order 1998
You are here:
- 1998 No. 3133
- Whole Instrument without Schedules
What Version
Status:
This is the original version (as it was originally made). UK Statutory Instruments are not carried in their revised form on this site.
1. This Order may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts Committees (Avon and Somerset) Amalgamation Order 1998 and shall come into force for the purposes of articles 2 and 4 on 1st April 2000 and for all other purposes on 4th January 1999.
2. The magistrates' courts committees for the retained counties of Avon and Somerset shall be abolished.
3. There shall be constituted as a body corporate a new magistrates' courts committee which shall be known as the Avon and Somerset magistrates' courts committee.
4. The area of the Avon and Somerset magistrates' courts committee shall consist of the county of Somerset, the City of Bristol and the districts of Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
5. The transitional and consequential provisions set out in the Schedule to this Order shall have effect in connection with the provisions of articles 2 and 3 of this Order.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
G.W. Hoon
Minister of State,
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Dated 10th December 1998
Options/Help
Print Options
Print The Whole Instrument
Print The Instrument without Schedules
Legislation is available in different versions:
Latest Available (revised):The latest available updated version of the legislation incorporating changes made by subsequent legislation and applied by our editorial team. Changes we have not yet applied to the text, can be found in the ‘Changes to Legislation’ area.
Original (As Enacted or Made):The original version of the legislation as it stood when it was enacted or made. No changes have been applied to the text.
Opening Options
Different options to open legislation in order to view more content on screen at once