SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 2

Abolition of magistrates' courts committees: transfers
Part 1

Property transfer schemes

Property transfer schemes: general
1
1
The Lord Chancellor may make a scheme or schemes for the transfer to him or another Minister of the Crown of any property, rights or liabilities—
a
to which magistrates' courts committees are entitled or subject immediately before the appointed day, or
b
to which any of the persons specified in sub-paragraph (2) is entitled or subject immediately before the appointed day and which then subsist for the purposes of, or in connection with, or are otherwise attributable to, magistrates' courts.
2
The persons are—
a
an authority which is a responsible authority for the purposes of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997;
b
the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District;
c
the council of an outer London borough;
d
the Common Council of the City of London;
e
a police authority established under section 3 of the Police Act 1996;
f
a local probation board;
g
any other body which acts under any enactment or instrument for public purposes and not for its own profit.
3
Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (1), any property, rights or liabilities are to be treated as falling within that paragraph if the Lord Chancellor issues a certificate to that effect.
4
In this Schedule “property transfer scheme” means a scheme under sub-paragraph (1).
5
In this Part of this Schedule “the appointed day” means—
a
in the case of the transfer of property, rights or liabilities to which magistrates' courts committees are entitled or subject, the day immediately before the abolition day;
b
in any other case, the day specified in the scheme.
6
On the day which is the appointed day in relation to property, rights or liabilities to which provisions of a property transfer scheme apply, the property, rights and liabilities are transferred and vest in accordance with those provisions.
7
In this Schedule “the abolition day” means the day appointed under section 110(1) for the coming into force of section 6(1) (abolition of magistrates' courts committees).