Statutory Instruments
Supreme Court of England and wales
County Courts, England and Wales
Magistrates’ Courts, England and Wales
Made
25th March 2007
Laid before Parliament
27th March 2007
Coming into force
1st May 2007
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4(2) of Courts Act 2003(1) and after having consulted the affected courts boards as required by section 4(6) of the same Act, makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Courts Boards Areas (Amendment) Order 2007 and comes into force on 1st May 2007.
2. For the Schedule to the Courts Boards Areas Order 2004(2) substitute the Schedule to this Order.
3. The Courts Boards Areas (Amendment) Order 2004(3) is revoked.
Falconer of Thoroton, C.
25th March 2007
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| Avon and Somerset | The county of Somerset and the non-metropolitan districts of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire |
| Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire | The county of Bedfordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Luton, the county of Essex and the non-metropolitan districts of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock and the county of Hertfordshire |
| Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire | The metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Coventry and Solihull and the county of Warwickshire. |
| Black Country, Staffordshire and West Mercia | The metropolitan districts of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley and Sandwell, the county of Staffordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Stoke-on-Trent and the counties of Shropshire and Worcestershire and the non-metropolitan districts of Herefordshire and Telford and The Wrekin |
| Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk | The county of Cambridgeshire, the non-metropolitan district of Peterborough and the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk |
| Cheshire and Merseyside | The metropolitan districts of Knowsley, Liverpool, St. Helens, Sefton and Wirral and the county of Cheshire and the non-metropolitan districts of Halton and Warrington |
| Cleveland, Durham and Northumbria | The non-metropolitan districts of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees, the county of Durham and the non-metropolitan district of Darlington and the county of Northumberland and the metropolitan districts of Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland |
| Cumbria and Lancashire | The counties of Cumbria and Lancashire and the non-metropolitan districts of Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool |
| Derbyshire and Nottingham | The county of Nottinghamshire and the non-metropolitan district of Nottingham and Derbyshire |
| Devon and Cornwall | The counties of Devon and Cornwall, the non-metropolitan districts of Plymouth and Torbay and the Isles of Scilly |
| Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire | The county of Dorset and the non-metropolitan districts of Bournemouth and Poole, the counties of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and the non-metropolitan district of Swindon |
| Greater Manchester | The metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight | The counties of Hampshire and Isle of Wight and the non-metropolitan districts of Portsmouth and Southampton |
| Humber and South Yorkshire | The non-metropolitan districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire and the metropolitan districts of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield |
| Kent | The county of Kent and the non-metropolitan district of Medway |
| Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Rutland and Northamptonshire | The county of Leicestershire and the non-metropolitan districts of Leicester and Rutland and the counties of Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire |
| London | Greater London |
| North and West Yorkshire | The county of North Yorkshire and the non-metropolitan district of York and the metropolitan districts of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield |
| Surrey and Sussex | The county of Surrey and the counties of East Sussex and West Sussex and the non-metropolitan district of Brighton and Hove |
| Thames Valley | The counties of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire and the non-metropolitan districts of Bracknell Forest, Milton Keynes, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham |
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| Mid and West Wales | The counties of Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys and Swansea and the County Borough of ‘Neath and Port Talbot’ |
| North Wales | The counties of the Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Flintshire and the county boroughs of Conway and Wrexham |
| South East Wales | The county of Cardiff and the county boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, ‘Rhondda Cynon Taff’, Vale of Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen |
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order, which comes in to force on 1st May 2007, substitutes a new Schedule to the Courts Boards Areas Order 2004 (made under section 4(2) of the Courts Act 2003). The new Schedule amends the description of courts boards areas in England and Wales to reflect changes in some of the boundaries, which have been altered in order to align with administrative areas of Her Majesty’s Courts Service. This Order also revokes the Courts Boards Areas (Amendment) Order 2004.
S.I. 2004/1192, the original Schedule was substituted by the Schedule to S.I. 2004/1303