The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999.

(2) In this Order, with the exception of Schedule 2, “the Act” means the Access to Justice Act 1999 and, unless the context requires otherwise, references to a section, Part or Schedule by number alone mean the section, Part or Schedule so numbered in the Act.

Commencement of provisions in Access to Justice Act 1999

2.  The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on 1st January 2000:

(a) in Part III, section 35 (replacement of Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct by Legal Services Consultative Panel), section 41 and Schedule 5 (authorised bodies: designation and regulations and rules), and, so far as they are not already in force, section 43 and Schedule 6 (minor and consequential amendments);

(b) in Part IV, section 71 (adjournment of inquest in event of judicial inquiry);

(c) in Part V, section 85 (power to direct implementation of inspectors' recommendations); and

(d) in Part VII, the repeal, in Part II of Schedule 15, of, or (as the case may be) of words in, the provisions specified in Schedule 1 to this Order; and, so far as it relates to those repeals, section 106.

3.  The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on 1st March 2000:

(a) in Part V:

(i) to the extent that it inserts sections 30A(1) and 30C into the Justices of the Peace Act 1997(1), section 83(1) (Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority); and

(ii) paragraphs 9 and 12 of Schedule 12; and, so far as it relates to those paragraphs, section 83(3);

(b) in Part VII, the repeal, in Part V(6) of Schedule 15, of section 56(4) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997; and, so far as it relates to that repeal, section 106.

Transitional provisions relating to Schedule 5 to the Act

4.  The transitional provisions set out in Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect.

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 13th December 1999