Access to Justice Act 1999

This section has no associated Explanatory Notes

32(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—E+W

(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.

Marginal Citations