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Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 3009

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999

Made

3rd November 1999

Coming into force

1st December 1999

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997(1) and paragraph 20 of Schedule 14 to the Access to Justice Act 1999(2), makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st December 1999.

Petty sessions areas

2.—(1) Each of the petty sessions areas specified in column 1 of Part I of the Schedule to this Order is a petty sessions area in England which comprises or is part of the magistrates' courts committee area shown in column 2 of Part I of the Schedule to this Order.

(2) Each of the petty sessions areas specified in column 1 of Part II of the Schedule to this Order is a petty sessions area in Wales which comprises or is part of the magistrates' courts committee area shown in column 2 of Part II of the Schedule to this Order.

(3) The petty sessions areas specified in the Schedule to this Order are also shown on a map of petty sessions areas in England and Wales kept by the Lord Chancellor’s Department.

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Jane Kennedy

Parliamentary Secretary

Lord Chancellor’s Department

3rd November 1999

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Part IPetty sessions areas in England

Column 1Column 2
Petty sessions areaMagistrates' courts committee area

Bath and Wansdyke

Bristol

North Avon

Woodspring

AVON
BarkingBARKING AND DAGENHAM
BarnetBARNET
Barnsley DistrictBARNSLEY

Ampthill

Bedford

Biggleswade

Dunstable

Leighton Buzzard

Luton

BEDFORDSHIRE
BexleyBEXLEY
BrentBRENT
BromleyBROMLEY
CalderdaleCALDERDALE

Cambridge

East Cambridgeshire

Fenland

Huntingdonshire

Peterborough

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Chester

Ellesmere Port and Neston

Halton

Macclesfield

South Cheshire

Vale Royal

Warrington

CHESHIRE
City of London (The Justice Rooms)CITY OF LONDON

Hartlepool

Langbaurgh East

Teesside

CLEVELAND
CroydonCROYDON

Appleby

Carlisle

Furness and District

Kendal and Lonsdale

Keswick

Penrith and Alston

South Lakes

West Allerdale

Whitehaven

Wigton

CUMBRIA

Chesterfield

Derby and South Derbyshire

East Derbyshire

Glossop

High Peak

West Derbyshire

DERBYSHIRE

Axminster and Honiton

Barnstaple and South Molton

Bideford and Great Torrington

Bodmin

Cullompton

Dunheved and Stratton

East Penwith

East Powder

Exeter and Wonford

Exmouth

Falmouth and Kerrier

Isles of Scilly

Penwith

Plymouth

Pydar

Teignbridge

Tiverton

Torbay

Truro and South Powder

South East Cornwall

South Hams

West Devon

DEVON AND CORNWALL
DoncasterDONCASTER

Bournemouth and Christchurch

Central Dorset

Poole

West Dorset

Weymouth and Portland

DORSET

Chester-le-Street

Darlington

Derwentside

Durham

Easington

Sedgefield

Teesdale and Wear Valley

DURHAM
EalingEALING

Brighton and Hove

Eastbourne and Hailsham

Hastings and Rother

Lewes and Crowborough

EAST SUSSEX
EnfieldENFIELD

Basildon

Braintree and Halstead

Brentwood

Chelmsford

Colchester

Dunmow and Saffron Walden

Epping and Ongar

Harlow

Harwich

Maldon and Witham

Rochford and Southend-on-Sea

Tendring

Thurrock

ESSEX
Gateshead DistrictGATESHEAD

Cirencester, Fairford and Tetbury

Forest of Dean

Gloucester

North Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Forest

North East Hampshire

North West Hampshire

South East Hampshire

South Hampshire

Southampton

HAMPSHIRE
HaringeyHARINGEY
Harrow GoreHARROW
HaveringHAVERING

Bromsgrove and Redditch

Herefordshire

Severnminster

South Worcestershire

HEREFORD AND WORCESTER

Dacorum

East Hertfordshire

Mid Hertfordshire

North Hertfordshire

St. Albans

Watford

HERTFORDSHIRE
HillingdonHILLINGDON
HounslowHOUNSLOW

Bainton, Wilton and Holme Beacon

Beverley

Dickering and North Holderness

Goole and Howdenshire

Grimsby and Cleethorpes

Kingston-upon-Hull

North Lincolnshire

South and Middle Holderness

South Hunsley Beacon

HUMBERSIDE

East Central

North Westminster

South Central

South Eastern

South Western

South Westminster

Thames

West London

INNER LONDON
Isle of WightISLE OF WIGHT

Canterbury and St. Augustine

Channel

Dartford

Faversham and Sittingbourne

Gravesham

Medway

Mid Kent

Thanet

West Kent

KENT
Kingston upon ThamesKINGSTON UPON THAMES

Blackburn, Darwen and Ribble Valley

Blackpool and Fylde

Burnley and Pendle

Chorley

Hyndburn

Lancaster

Ormskirk

Preston

Rossendale

South Ribble

Wyre

LANCASHIRE

Leeds

Morley

Pudsey and Otley

Skyrack and Wetherby

LEEDS

Ashby-de-la-Zouche

Leicester

Loughborough

Market Bosworth

Market Harborough and Lutterworth

Melton, Belvoir and Rutland

LEICESTERSHIRE

Boston

Bourne and Stamford

Elloes

Gainsborough

Grantham

Lincoln District

Skegness

Sleaford

Wolds

LINCOLNSHIRE
ManchesterMANCHESTER

Knowsley

Liverpool

North Sefton District

St. Helens

South Sefton District

Wirral

MERSEYSIDE
MertonMERTON
Newcastle upon Tyne DistrictNEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NewhamNEWHAM

Central Norfolk

Great Yarmouth

North Norfolk

Norwich

South Norfolk

West Norfolk

NORFOLK

Corby

Daventry

Kettering

Northampton

Towcester

Wellingborough

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Alnwick

Berwick-upon-Tweed

South East Northumberland

Tynedale

NORTHUMBERLAND

Bolton

Bury

City of Salford

Leigh

Rochdale, Middleton and Heywood

Wigan

NORTH AND WEST GREATER MANCHESTER
North Tyneside DistrictNORTH TYNESIDE

Harrogate

Northallerton and Richmond

Scarborough

Selby

Skipton

York

NORTH YORKSHIRE

East Retford

Mansfield

Newark and Southwell

Nottingham

Worksop

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
OldhamOLDHAM
RedbridgeREDBRIDGE
Richmond upon ThamesRICHMOND UPON THAMES
RotherhamROTHERHAM
SheffieldSHEFFIELD

Bridgnorth

Drayton

Ludlow

Oswestry

Shrewsbury

Telford

SHROPSHIRE

Mendip

Sedgemoor

South Somerset

Taunton Deane

West Somerset

SOMERSET
South Tyneside DistrictSOUTH TYNESIDE

Burton upon Trent

Cannock

Lichfield

Mid Staffordshire

Newcastle-under-Lyme and Pirehill North

Rugeley

Seisdon

Staffordshire Moorlands

Stoke-on-Trent

Tamworth

STAFFORDSHIRE
StockportSTOCKPORT

Deben

Haverhill and Sudbury

Ipswich

North East Suffolk

North West Suffolk

St. Edmundsbury and Stowmarket

SUFFOLK

Houghton-le-Spring

Sunderland

SUNDERLAND

North and East Surrey

North West Surrey

South East Surrey

South West Surrey

SURREY
SuttonSUTTON
TamesideTAMESIDE

Central Buckinghamshire

East Berkshire

Milton Keynes

Northern Oxfordshire

Oxford

Reading

Southern Oxfordshire

West Berkshire

Wycombe and Beaconsfield

THAMES VALLEY
TraffordTRAFFORD
Waltham ForestWALTHAM FOREST

Atherstone and Coleshill

Mid Warwickshire

Nuneaton

Rugby

South Warwickshire

WARWICKSHIRE

Aldridge and Brownhills

Birmingham

Coventry District

Dudley

Solihull

Stourbridge and Halesowen

Sutton Coldfield

Walsall

Warley

West Bromwich

Wolverhampton

WEST MIDLANDS

Bradford

Batley and Dewsbury

Huddersfield

Keighley

Pontefract

Wakefield

WEST RIDING

Arundel

Chichester and District

Crawley

Horsham

Mid Sussex

Worthing and District

WEST SUSSEX

Kennet

North Wiltshire

Salisbury

Swindon

West Wiltshire

WILTSHIRE

Part IIPetty sessions areas in Wales

Column 1Column 2
Petty sessions areaMagistrates' courts committee area

Carmarthen

Ceredigion

Dinefwr

Llanelli

North Pembrokeshire

South Pembrokeshire

DYFED

Bedwellty

East Gwent

Lower Rhymney Valley

Newport

Upper Rhymney Valley

GWENT

Aberconwy

Arfon

Colwyn

Denbighshire

Dwyfor

Flintshire

Meirionnydd

Wrexham Maelor

Ynys Môn/Anglesey

NORTH WALES

De Breycheiniog

De Maldwyn

Radnorshire and North Brecknock

Welshpool

POWYS

Cardiff

Cynon Valley

Merthyr Tydfil

Miskin

Newcastle and Ogmore

Vale of Glamorgan

SOUTH WALES

Neath Port Talbot

Swansea County

WEST GLAMORGAN

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This is the first Order made under section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 as substituted by section 75 of the Access to Justice Act 1999. It specifies the petty sessions areas for England and Wales. Each of the areas was a petty sessions area immediately before section 75 came into force.

The map of petty sessions areas referred to in article 2(3) of the Order can be inspected at the Lord Chancellor’s Department, Selborne House, 54-60 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QW by any person at any reasonable time.

(1)

1997 c. 25. A new version of section 4 is substituted by section 75 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22). This is the first order under the substituted section 4.

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