The Petty Sessions Areas (Amendment) Order 2001

Made5th 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 19971, 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 19992.

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 Lincolnshire3

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Jane Kennedy

Parliamentary Secretary,

Lord Chancellor’s Department

Dated 5th March 2001

SCHEDULE

Article 2

PART IPETTY SESSIONS AREAS IN ENGLAND

Column 1	Column 2
Petty sessions area	Magistrates' courts committee area
Bath and Wansdyke	AVON AND SOMERSET4
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 AUTHORITY5
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 MANCHESTER6
Bury
City of Salford
Leigh
Manchester
Oldham
Rochdale, Middleton and Heywood
Stockport
Tameside
Trafford
Wigan
Isle of Wight	HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT7
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	NORTHUMBRIA8
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 YORKSHIRE9
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	SUSSEX10
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 MERCIA11
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 YORKSHIRE12
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 POWYS13
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 WALES14
Cynon Valley
Merthyr Tydfil
Miskin
Neath Port Talbot
Newcastle and Ogmore
Swansea County
Vale of Glamorgan

(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.