3. The district courts established for the commission areas listed in Schedule 2 to this Order are disestablished on the relevant date(1).
District courts were established for commission areas by virtue of section 1(1) of the District Courts (Scotland) Act 1975 (“the 1975 Act”). “Commission areas” is defined in section 26 of that Act as “the area of a local authority”. “Local authority” is defined as a “council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994” (c.39).