SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14 Transitional provisions and savings

Part V Magistrates and magistrates’ courts

The Greater London Magistrates’ Courts Authority

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1

The Lord Chancellor may by order made by statutory instrument make provision in connection with the establishing of the Greater London Magistrates’ Courts Authority, including—

a

provision for the Authority to incur liabilities and to exercise any function before the time when it becomes the magistrates’ courts committee for Greater London, and

b

provision for the abolition of the magistrates’ courts committees for areas in Greater London immediately before that time.

2

For the purposes of sections 39A and 39B of the M1Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (inserted by section 86 of this Act) the Authority shall be treated as a magistrates’ courts committee until it actually becomes the magistrates’ courts committee for Greater London.