The Commission Areas (Sussex) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 2530

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Commission Areas (Sussex) Order 2001

Made

12th July 2001

Laid before Parliament

16th July 2001

Coming into force

1st January 2002

Whereas the Sussex magistrates' courts committee have, in pursuance of section 32A(1) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997(1), submitted to the Lord Chancellor written proposals for the alteration of commission areas including parts of the area for which they are the committee;

And whereas by section 32A(4) and (5) of that Act it is provided that any order made by the Lord Chancellor under section 1(2) of that Act shall be taken to implement such proposals if it does so either without changes or only with changes which do not appear to him to be important and that any such order may contain such consequential and transitional provisions as appear to him to be necessary or expedient;

And whereas the provisions of section 32A(2) of that Act have been complied with:

Now, therefore, the Lord Chancellor, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 1(2) of that Act, makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Commission Areas (Sussex) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st January 2002.

2.  In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires:—

“area” means a commission area including any part of the Sussex magistrates' courts committee area;

“abolished area” means one of the areas abolished by article 3(a) below;

“new area” means the area constituted by article 3(b) below;

any reference to a justice for an area shall be construed as a reference to a person who holds the commission of the peace for that area.

3.  In Part I of the Schedule to the Justices of the Peace (Commission Areas) Order 1999(2):—

(a) the entries for East Sussex and West Sussex shall be omitted;

(b) after the entry for Surrey there shall be substituted the following new entry:

Name of commission area	Extent of commission area
Sussex	The area of Sussex MCC

4.  Every person who immediately before 1st January 2002 holds office as a justice of the peace for an abolished area shall on and after that date hold office as a justice of the peace for the new area, and the commissions of the peace for the abolished areas shall accordingly have effect as commissions of the peace for the new area until such time as a commission of the peace for that area is granted.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Michael Wills

Parliamentary Secretary,

Lord Chancellor’s Department

12th July 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for the replacement of the two commission areas of East Sussex and West Sussex by a single commission area to be known as the Sussex commission area, and comes into force on 1st January 2002.

(1)

1997 c. 25, new section 1 was substituted by, and section 32A was inserted by, section 74 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).

(2)

S.I. 1999/3010, as amended by S.I. 2001/696.