Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c. 43)

Part II E+W Civil Jurisdiction and Procedure

Jurisdiction to issue summons and deal with complaints E+W

52 Jurisdiction to deal with complaints. E+W

Where no express provision is made by any Act or the rules specifying what magistrates’ courts shall have jurisdiction to hear a complaint, a magistrates’ court shall have such jurisdiction if the complaint relates to anything done within the commission area for which the court is appointed or anything left undone that ought to have been done there, or ought to have been done either there or elsewhere, or relates to any other matter arising within that area.

In this section “commission area” has the same meaning as in [F1 the Justices of the Peace Act 1997].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 52 substituted (19.6.1997) by 1997 c. 25, ss. 73(2), 74(1), Sch. 5 para. 19(2)(3)(a) (with Sch. 4 para. 27)