Courts Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2005

Local Government (Wales) Act 1994(1)

51.  In section 55 (magistrates' courts, justices of the peace etc)—

(a) in subsection (2)(a), for “magistrates' court or keeper of the rolls for a commission area” substitute “or magistrates' court”;

(b) in subsection (2)(b), for “commission areas, petty sessions areas and areas to which magistrates' courts committees relate” substitute “local justice areas”; and

(c) in subsection (3), for “commission areas, petty sessions areas or areas of magistrates' courts committees” substitute “local justice areas”.

(1)

1994 c. 19. Section 5(2) was amended by section 105 of, and Schedule 15 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) and section 5(3) was amended by section 76(2) of, and Schedule 10 to, that Act.