Statutory Instruments
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
9th March 2000
Coming into force
1st April 2000
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997(1), makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Petty Sessions Areas (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.
2. For the Schedule to the Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999(2) there shall be substituted the Schedule to this Order.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Jane Kennedy
Parliamentary Secretary,
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Dated 9th March 2000
Article 2
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| Petty sessions area | Magistrates' courts committee area |
Bath and Wansdyke Bristol Mendip North Avon Sedgemoor South Somerset Taunton Deane West Somerset Woodspring | AVON AND SOMERSET(3) |
| Barking | BARKING AND DAGENHAM |
| Barnet | BARNET |
| Barnsley District | BARNSLEY |
Bedford and Mid Bedfordshire Luton and South Bedfordshire | BEDFORDSHIRE |
| Bexley | BEXLEY |
| Brent | BRENT |
| Bromley | BROMLEY |
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 |
| Croydon | CROYDON |
Carlisle and District Eden Furness and District South Lakeland West Allerdale and Keswick Whitehaven | 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 |
| Doncaster | DONCASTER |
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 |
| Ealing | EALING |
Brighton and Hove Eastbourne and Hailsham Hastings and Rother Lewes and Crowborough | EAST SUSSEX |
| Enfield | ENFIELD |
Mid-North Essex Mid-South Essex North-East Essex North-West Essex South-East Essex South-West Essex | ESSEX |
Cirencester, Fairford and Tetbury Forest of Dean Gloucester North Gloucestershire South Gloucestershire | GLOUCESTERSHIRE |
Isle of Wight New Forest North East Hampshire North West Hampshire South East Hampshire South Hampshire Southampton | HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT(4) |
| Haringey | HARINGEY |
| Harrow Gore | HARROW |
| Havering | HAVERING |
Bromsgrove and Redditch Herefordshire Severnminster South Worcestershire | HEREFORD AND WORCESTER |
Dacorum East Hertfordshire Mid Hertfordshire North Hertfordshire St. Albans Watford | HERTFORDSHIRE |
| Hillingdon | HILLINGDON |
| Hounslow | HOUNSLOW |
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 |
Canterbury and St. Augustine Channel Dartford and Gravesham Faversham and Sittingbourne Medway Mid Kent Thanet West Kent | KENT |
| Kingston upon Thames | KINGSTON UPON THAMES |
Blackburn, Darwen and Ribble Valley Blackpool and Fylde Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Chorley Hyndburn Lancaster Ormskirk Preston South Ribble Wyre | LANCASHIRE |
Ashby-de-la-Zouch 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 |
| Manchester | MANCHESTER |
Knowsley Liverpool North Sefton District St. Helens South Sefton District Wirral | MERSEYSIDE |
| Merton | MERTON |
| Newham | NEWHAM |
Central Norfolk Great Yarmouth North Norfolk Norwich South Norfolk West Norfolk | NORFOLK |
Corby Daventry Kettering Northampton Towcester Wellingborough | NORTHAMPTONSHIRE |
Alnwick Berwick-upon-Tweed Gateshead District Houghton-le-Spring Newcastle upon Tyne District North Tyneside District South East Northumberland South Tyneside District Sunderland Tynedale | NORTHUMBRIA(5) |
Bolton Bury City of Salford Leigh Rochdale, Middleton and Heywood Wigan | NORTH AND WEST GREATER MANCHESTER |
Harrogate Northallerton and Richmond Scarborough Selby Skipton York | NORTH YORKSHIRE |
East Retford Mansfield Newark and Southwell Nottingham Worksop | NOTTINGHAMSHIRE |
| Oldham | OLDHAM |
| Redbridge | REDBRIDGE |
| Richmond upon Thames | RICHMOND UPON THAMES |
| Rotherham | ROTHERHAM |
| Sheffield | SHEFFIELD |
Bridgnorth Drayton Ludlow Oswestry Shrewsbury Telford | SHROPSHIRE |
Burton upon Trent Cannock and Seisdon Lichfield and Tamworth Mid Staffordshire and Rugeley North Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent | STAFFORDSHIRE |
| Stockport | STOCKPORT |
Deben Haverhill and Sudbury Ipswich North East Suffolk North West Suffolk St. Edmundsbury and Stowmarket | SUFFOLK |
North Surrey North West Surrey South East Surrey South West Surrey | SURREY |
| Sutton | SUTTON |
| Tameside | TAMESIDE |
Central Buckinghamshire East Berkshire Milton Keynes Northern Oxfordshire Oxford Reading Southern Oxfordshire West Berkshire Wycombe and Beaconsfield | THAMES VALLEY |
| Trafford | TRAFFORD |
| Waltham Forest | WALTHAM 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 Calderdale Huddersfield Keighley Leeds Morley Pontefract Pudsey and Otley Skyrack and Wetherby Wakefield | WEST YORKSHIRE(6) |
Arundel Chichester and District Crawley Horsham Mid Sussex Worthing and District | WEST SUSSEX |
North West Wiltshire South East Wiltshire Swindon WILTSHIRE |
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| Petty sessions area | Magistrates' courts committee area |
Carmarthen Ceredigion De Brycheiniog De Maldwyn Dinefwr Llanelli North Pembrokeshire Radnorshire and North Brecknock South Pembrokeshire Welshpool | DYFED POWYS(7) |
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 |
Cardiff Cynon Valley Merthyr Tydfil Miskin Neath Port Talbot Newcastle and Ogmore Swansea County Vale of Glamorgan | SOUTH WALES(8) |
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order substitutes a new list for the list of petty sessions areas in the Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999. The new list substituted by this Order takes account of changes to magistrates' courts committee areas that come into force on 1st April 2000.
1997 c. 25. A new version of section 4 was substituted by section 75 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).
The Avon and Somerset magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1998/3133.
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1999/523.
The Northumbria magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1998/2707 as amended by S.I. 1998/3108.
The West Yorkshire magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1998/2769 as amended by S.I. 1999/152.
The Dyfed Powys magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1998/2664.
The South Wales magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1999/1609.