2004 No. 1303
SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES
COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES
MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Courts Boards Areas (Amendment) Order 2004

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 4(2) and 4(4) of the Courts Act 20031, makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement1.

This Order may be cited as the Courts Boards Areas (Amendment) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 1st June 2004.

Amendments to the Courts Boards Areas Order 20042.

For the Schedule to the Courts Boards Areas Order 20042 there shall be substituted the Schedule to this Order.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Christopher Leslie
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Constitutional Affairs

SCHEDULE

Table 1England

Avon and Somerset

The county of Somerset and the non-metropolitan districts of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

Bedfordshire

The county of Bedfordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Luton

Cambridgeshire

The county of Cambridgeshire and the non-metropolitan district of Peterborough

Cheshire

The county of Cheshire and the non-metropolitan districts of Halton and Warrington

Cleveland

The non-metropolitan districts of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees

Cumbria

The county of Cumbria

Derbyshire

The county of Derbyshire and the non-metropolitan district of Derby

Devon and Cornwall

The counties of Devon and Cornwall, the non-metropolitan districts of Plymouth and Torbay and the Isles of Scilly

Dorset

The county of Dorset and the non-metropolitan districts of Bournemouth and Poole

Durham

The county of Durham and the non-metropolitan district of Darlington

Essex

The county of Essex and the non-metropolitan districts of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock

Gloucestershire

The county of Gloucestershire

Greater Manchester

The metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan

Hampshire

The counties of Hampshire and Isle of Wight and the non-metropolitan districts of Portsmouth and Southampton

Hertfordshire

The county of Hertfordshire

Humberside

The non-metropolitan districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire

Kent

The county of Kent and the non-metropolitan district of Medway

Lancashire

The county of Lancashire and the non-metropolitan districts of Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool

Leicestershire

The county of Leicestershire and the non-metropolitan districts of Leicester and Rutland

Lincolnshire

The county of Lincolnshire

London

Greater London

Merseyside

The metropolitan districts of Knowsley, Liverpool, St. Helens, Sefton and Wirral

Norfolk

The county of Norfolk

Northamptonshire

The county of Northamptonshire

Northumbria

The county of Northumberland and the metropolitan districts of Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland

North Yorkshire

The county of North Yorkshire and the non-metropolitan district of York

Nottinghamshire

The county of Nottinghamshire and the non-metropolitan district of Nottingham

South Yorkshire

The metropolitan districts of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield

Staffordshire

The county of Staffordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Stoke-on-Trent

Suffolk

The county of Suffolk

Surrey

The county of Surrey

Sussex

The counties of East Sussex and West Sussex and the non-metropolitan district of Brighton and Hove

Thames Valley

The counties of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire and the non-metropolitan districts of Bracknell Forest, Milton Keynes Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham

Warwickshire

The county of Warwickshire

West Mercia

The counties of Shropshire and Worcestershire and the non-metropolitan districts of Herefordshire and Telford and The Wrekin

West Midlands

The metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton

West Yorkshire

The metropolitan districts of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield

Wiltshire

The county of Wiltshire and the non-metropolitan district of Swindon

Table 2Wales

Dyfed Powys

The counties of Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys

Gwent

The county of Monmouthshire and the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen

North Wales

The counties of the Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Flintshire and the county boroughs of Conwy and Wrexham

South Wales

The counties of Cardiff and Swansea and the county boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taff and the Vale of Glamorgan

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order substitutes a new Schedule to the Courts Boards (Areas) Order 2004 (made under section 4(2) of the Courts Act 2003). The new Schedule corrects the description of courts boards areas in England and Wales to reflect police areas as described in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 and recent amendments to local authority areas. The Lord Chancellor is required by section 4(7) of the Courts Act 2003 to have regard to police areas when making an Order specifying courts boards areas.