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2001 No. 694
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Petty Sessions Areas (Amendment) Order 2001
Made
5th March 2001
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997(1), makes the following Order:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Petty Sessions Areas (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force for the purposes of article 3 on 31st March 2002 and for all other purposes on 1st April 2001.
(2) In this Order “the 1999 Order” means the Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999(2).
Petty sessions areas
2. For the Schedule to the 1999 Order there shall be substituted the Schedule to this Order.
3. For the entries in column 1 of Part I of the Schedule to the 1999 Order as substituted by this Order opposite the entry “HUMBERSIDE” in column 2, there shall be substituted—
“Beverley and the Wolds
Bridlington
Goole and Howdenshire
Grimsby and Cleethorpes
Hull and Holderness
North Lincolnshire(3)”.
Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor
Jane Kennedy
Parliamentary Secretary,
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Dated 5th March 2001
Article 2
SCHEDULE
PART IPETTY SESSIONS AREAS IN ENGLAND
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| Petty sessions area | Magistrates' courts committee area |
| Bath and Wansdyke | AVON AND SOMERSET(4) |
| Bristol | |
| Mendip | |
| North Avon | |
| Sedgemoor | |
| South Somerset | |
| Taunton Deane | |
| West Somerset | |
| Woodspring | |
| Bedford and Mid Bedfordshire | BEDFORDSHIRE |
| Luton and South Bedfordshire | |
| Cambridge | CAMBRIDGESHIRE |
| East Cambridgeshire | |
| Fenland | |
| Huntingdonshire | |
| Peterborough | |
| Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston | CHESHIRE |
| Halton | |
| Macclesfield | |
| South Cheshire | |
| Vale Royal | |
| Warrington | |
| Hartlepool | CLEVELAND |
| Langbaurgh East | |
| Teesside | |
| Carlisle and District | CUMBRIA |
| Eden | |
| Furness and District | |
| South Lakeland | |
| West Allerdale and Keswick | |
| Whitehaven | |
| Derby and South Derbyshire | DERBYSHIRE |
| East Derbyshire | |
| High Peak | |
| North East Derbyshire and Dales | |
| Central Devon | DEVON AND CORNWALL |
| East Cornwall | |
| North Devon | |
| Plymouth District | |
| South Devon | |
| West Cornwall | |
| Bournemouth and Christchurch | DORSET |
| Central Dorset | |
| Poole | |
| West Dorset | |
| Weymouth and Portland | |
| Chester-le-Street | DURHAM |
| Darlington | |
| Derwentside | |
| Durham | |
| Easington | |
| Sedgefield | |
| Teesdale and Wear Valley | |
| Mid-North Essex | ESSEX |
| Mid-South Essex | |
| North-East Essex | |
| North-West Essex | |
| South-East Essex | |
| South-West Essex | |
| Cirencester, Fairford and Tetbury | GLOUCESTERSHIRE |
| Forest of Dean | |
| Gloucester | |
| North Gloucestershire | |
| South Gloucestershire | |
| Barking | GREATER LONDON MAGISTRATES' COURTS AUTHORITY(5) |
| Barnet | |
| Bexley | |
| Brent | |
| Bromley | |
| City of London (The Justice Rooms) | |
| Croydon | |
| Ealing | |
| East Central | |
| Enfield | |
| Haringey | |
| Harrow Gore | |
| Havering | |
| Hillingdon | |
| Hounslow | |
| Kingston upon Thames | |
| Merton | |
| Newham | |
| North Westminster | |
| Redbridge | |
| Richmond upon Thames | |
| South Central | |
| South Eastern | |
| South Western | |
| South Westminster | |
| Sutton | |
| Thames | |
| Waltham Forest | |
| West London | |
| Bolton | GREATER MANCHESTER(6) |
| Bury | |
| City of Salford | |
| Leigh | |
| Manchester | |
| Oldham | |
| Rochdale, Middleton and Heywood | |
| Stockport | |
| Tameside | |
| Trafford | |
| Wigan | |
| Isle of Wight | HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT(7) |
| New Forest | |
| North East Hampshire | |
| North West Hampshire | |
| South East Hampshire | |
| South Hampshire | |
| Southampton | |
| Central Hertfordshire | HERTFORDSHIRE |
| Dacorum | |
| East Hertfordshire | |
| North Hertfordshire | |
| Watford | |
| Bainton, Wilton and Holme Beacon | HUMBERSIDE |
| Beverley | |
| Dickering and North Holderness | |
| Goole and Howdenshire | |
| Grimsby and Cleethorpes | |
| Kingston-upon-Hull | |
| North Lincolnshire | |
| South and Middle Holderness | |
| South Hunsley Beacon | |
| Canterbury and St. Augustine | KENT |
| Channel | |
| Dartford and Gravesham | |
| Faversham and Sittingbourne | |
| Medway | |
| Mid Kent | |
| Thanet | |
| West Kent | |
| Blackburn, Darwen and Ribble Valley | LANCASHIRE |
| Blackpool and Fylde | |
| Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale | |
| Chorley | |
| Hyndburn | |
| Lancaster | |
| Ormskirk | |
| Preston | |
| South Ribble | |
| Wyre | |
| Ashby-de-la-Zouch | LEICESTERSHIRE |
| Leicester | |
| Loughborough | |
| Market Bosworth | |
| Market Harborough and Lutterworth | |
| Melton, Belvoir and Rutland | |
| Boston | LINCOLNSHIRE |
| Bourne and Stamford | |
| Elloes | |
| Gainsborough | |
| Grantham | |
| Lincoln District | |
| Skegness | |
| Sleaford | |
| Wolds | |
| Knowsley | MERSEYSIDE |
| Liverpool | |
| North Sefton District | |
| St. Helens | |
| South Sefton District | |
| Wirral | |
| Central Norfolk | NORFOLK |
| Great Yarmouth | |
| North Norfolk | |
| Norwich | |
| South Norfolk | |
| West Norfolk | |
| Corby | NORTHAMPTONSHIRE |
| Daventry | |
| Kettering | |
| Northampton | |
| Towcester | |
| Wellingborough | |
| Alnwick | NORTHUMBRIA(8) |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | |
| Gateshead District | |
| Houghton-le-Spring | |
| Newcastle upon Tyne District | |
| North Tyneside District | |
| South East Northumberland | |
| South Tyneside District | |
| Sunderland | |
| Tynedale | |
| Harrogate | NORTH YORKSHIRE |
| Northallerton and Richmond | |
| Scarborough | |
| Selby | |
| Skipton | |
| York | |
| East Retford | NOTTINGHAMSHIRE |
| Mansfield | |
| Newark and Southwell | |
| Nottingham | |
| Worksop | |
| Barnsley District | SOUTH YORKSHIRE(9) |
| Doncaster | |
| Rotherham | |
| Sheffield | |
| Burton upon Treunt | STAFFORDSHIRE |
| Cannock and Seisdon | |
| Lichfield and Tamworth | |
| Mid Staffordshire and Rugeley | |
| North Staffordshire | |
| Stoke-on-Trent | |
| Haverhill and Sudbury | SUFFOLK |
| North East Suffolk | |
| North West Suffolk | |
| St. Edmundsbury and Stowmarket | |
| South East Suffolk | |
| North Surrey | SURREY |
| North West Surrey | |
| South East Surrey | |
| South West Surrey | |
| Arundel | SUSSEX(10) |
| Brighton and Hove | |
| Chichester and District | |
| Crawley | |
| Eastbourne and Hailsham | |
| Hastings and Rother | |
| Horsham | |
| Lewes and Crowborough | |
| Mid Sussex | |
| Worthing and District | |
| Central Buckinghamshire | THAMES VALLEY |
| East Berkshire | |
| Milton Keynes | |
| Northern Oxfordshire | |
| Oxford | |
| Reading | |
| Southern Oxfordshire | |
| West Berkshire | |
| Wycombe and Beaconsfield | |
| Atherstone and Coleshill | WARWICKSHIRE |
| Mid Warwickshire | |
| Nuneaton | |
| Rugby | |
| South Warwickshire | |
| Bridgnorth | WEST MERCIA(11) |
| Bromsgrove and Redditch | |
| Drayton | |
| Herefordshire | |
| Ludlow | |
| Oswestry | |
| Severnminster | |
| Shrewsbury | |
| South Worcestershire | |
| Telford | |
| Aldridge and Brownhills | WEST MIDLANDS |
| Birmingham | |
| Coventry District | |
| Dudley | |
| Solihull | |
| Stourbridge and Halesowen | |
| Sutton Coldfield | |
| Walsall | |
| Warley | |
| West Bromwich | |
| Wolverhampton | |
| Bradford | WEST YORKSHIRE(12) |
| Batley and Dewsbury | |
| Calderdale | |
| Huddersfield | |
| Keighley | |
| Leeds | |
| Morley | |
| Pontefract | |
| Pudsey and Otley | |
| Skyrack and Wetherby | |
| Wakefield | |
| North West Wiltshire | WILTSHIRE |
| South East Wiltshire | |
| Swindon |
PART IIPETTY SESSIONS AREAS IN WALES
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| Petty sessions area | Magistrates' courts committee area |
| Carmarthen | DYFED POWYS(13) |
| Ceredigion | |
| De Brycheiniog | |
| De Maldwyn | |
| Dinefwr | |
| Llanelli | |
| North Pembrokeshire | |
| Radnorshire and North Brecknock | |
| South Pembrokeshire | |
| Welshpool | |
| North West Gwent | GWENT |
| South East Gwent | |
| Arfon | NORTH WALES |
| Conwy | |
| Denbighshire | |
| Dwyfor | |
| Flintshire | |
| Meirionnydd | |
| Wrexham Maelor | |
| Ynys Môn/Anglesey | |
| Cardiff | SOUTH WALES(14) |
| Cynon Valley | |
| Merthyr Tydfil | |
| Miskin | |
| Neath Port Talbot | |
| Newcastle and Ogmore | |
| Swansea County | |
| Vale of Glamorgan |
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order substitutes a new list for the list of petty sessions areas in the Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999. The new list substituted by this Order takes account of changes to magistrates' courts committee areas effected by Orders that establish on 1st April 2001 the following magistrates' courts committees:
Greater Manchester (the magistrates' courts committees for Manchester, North and West Greater Manchester, Oldham, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford are abolished);
South Yorkshire (the magistrates' courts committees for Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield are abolished);
Sussex (the magistrates' courts committees for East Sussex and West Sussex are abolished); and
West Mercia (the magistrates' courts committees for Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire are abolished).
The new list also takes account of section 30A(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (inserted by section 83(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999) which provides that the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority shall be the magistrates' courts committee for Greater London. Section 30A(2) comes into force on 1st April 2001.
The new list also takes account of changes to petty sessions areas in Humberside effected by the Petty Sessions Areas (Humberside) Order 2001. Those changes take effect on 31st March 2002.
(1)
1997 c. 25. A new version of section 4 was substituted by section 75 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).
(2)
S.I. 1999/3009; amended by S.I. 1999/3220; S.I. 2000/515, 517, 628, 675, 1385, 1550, 1716, 2256, 2635 and 3100; S.I. 2001/292 and 602.
(3)
The petty sessions areas for Beverley and the Wolds, Bridlington, and Hull and Holderness were constituted by S.I. 2001/292.
(4)
The Avon and Somerset magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1998/3133.
(5)
Section 30A(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) (inserted by section 83(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22)) provides that the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority shall become the magistrates' courts committee for Greater London. Section 30A(2) comes into force on 1st April 2001.
(6)
The Greater Manchester magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1999/2426.
(7)
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1999/523.
(8)
The Northumbria magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1998/2707 as amended by S.I. 1998/3108.
(9)
The South Yorkshire magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1999/2209.
(10)
The Sussex magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1999/2542.
(11)
The West Mercia magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1999/1705.
(12)
The West Yorkshire magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1998/2769 as amended by S.I. 1999/152.
(13)
The Dyfed Powys magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1998/2664.
(14)
The South Wales magistrates' courts committee was constituted by S.I. 1999/1609.
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