http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1192/madeThe Courts Boards Areas Order 2004County courtsKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2011-07-04SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALESCOUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALESMAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES This is the first Order made under section 4 of the Courts Act 2003. It names and specifies courts boards areas in England and Wales. The Courts Boards Areas Order 2004scheduleThe Courts Boards Areas (Amendment) Order 2009arts 3 - 5The Courts Boards Areas Order 2004scheduleThe Courts Boards Areas (Amendment) Order 2009arts 3 - 5The Courts Boards Areas Order 2004ScheduleThe Courts Boards Areas (Amendment) Order 2004art 2 ScheduleThe Courts Boards Areas Order 2004OrderThe Public Bodies (Abolition of Courts Boards) Order 2012Sch. para. 10art. 1(2) 2004 No. 1192 SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES The Courts Boards Areas Order 2004 Made 21st April 2004 Coming into force 1st June 2004 The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 4(2) of the Courts Act 2003, having regard to the desirability of specifying areas which are the same as the police areas listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 and the area consisting of the Metropolitan Police District and the City of London police area, hereby makes the following Order a draft of which has, in accordance with section 108(2) and (3) of the Courts Act 2003, been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament: Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Court Boards Areas Order 2004 and shall come into force on 1st June 2004. Courts Boards areas 2 Each of the areas respectively named in column 1, and specified in column 2 of Table 1 of the Schedule to this Order, is a courts board area in England. 3 Each of the areas respectively named in column 1, and specified in column 2 of Table 2 of the Schedule to this Order, is a courts board area in Wales. Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor Christopher Leslie Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department of Constitutional Affairs Dated 21st April 2004 SCHEDULE Table 1
England
Avon and SomersetThe county of Somerset and the non-metropolitan districts of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North West Somerset and South Gloucestershire
BedfordshireThe county of Bedfordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Luton
CambridgeshireThe county of Cambridgeshire
CheshireThe county of Cheshire
ClevelandThe non-metropolitan districts of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees
CumbriaThe county of Cumbria
DerbyshireThe county of Derbyshire and the non-metropolitan district of Derby
Devon and CornwallThe counties of Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
DorsetThe county of Dorset and the non-metropolitan districts of Bournemouth and Poole
DurhamThe county of Durham and the non-metropolitan district of Darlington
EssexThe county of Essex
GloucestershireThe county of Gloucestershire
Greater ManchesterThe metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan
HampshireThe counties of Hampshire and Isle of Wight and the non-metropolitan districts of Portsmouth and Southampton
HertfordshireThe county of Hertfordshire
HumbersideThe non-metropolitan districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire
KentThe county of Kent
LancashireThe county of Lancashire
LeicestershireThe county of Leicestershire and the non-metropolitan districts of Leicester and Rutland
LincolnshireThe county of Lincolnshire
LondonGreater London
MerseysideThe metropolitan districts of Knowsley, Liverpool, St. Helens, Sefton and Wirral
NorfolkThe county of Norfolk
NorthamptonshireThe county of Northamptonshire
NorthumbriaThe county of Northumberland and the metropolitan districts of Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland
North YorkshireThe county of North Yorkshire and the non-metropolitan district of York
NottinghamshireThe county of Nottinghamshire
South YorkshireThe metropolitan districts of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
StaffordshireThe county of Staffordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Stoke-on-Trent
SuffolkThe county of Suffolk
SurreyThe county of Surrey
SussexThe counties of East Sussex and West Sussex and the non-metropolitan district of Brighton and Hove
Thames ValleyThe counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Milton Keynes
WarwickshireThe county of Warwickshire
West MerciaThe counties of Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire
West MidlandsThe metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton
West YorkshireThe metropolitan districts of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield
WiltshireThe county of Wiltshire and the non-metropolitan district of Thamesdown
Table 2
Wales
Dyfed PowysThe counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys
GwentThe county of Monmouthshire and the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen
North WalesThe counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire and the county boroughs of Aberconwy and Colwyn and Wrexham
South WalesThe counties of Cardiff and Swansea and the county boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath and Port Talbot, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff and the Vale of Glamorgan
(This note is not part of the Order)

This is the first Order made under section 4 of the Courts Act 2003. It names and specifies courts boards areas in England and Wales.

2003 c. 39. 1996 c. 16 (division of England and Wales, except London, into police areas).