Statutory Instruments
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
1st December 1999
Coming into force
1st January 2000
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:
1. This Order may be cited as the Petty Sessions Areas (Amendment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st January 2000.
2. In Part I of the Schedule to the Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999(2)-
(a)for the entries in column 1 opposite the entry "BEDFORDSHIRE" in column 2 there shall be substituted-
"Bedford and Mid Bedfordshire |
Luton and South Bedfordshire"(3); |
(b)for the entries in column 1 opposite the entry "ESSEX" in column 2 there shall be substituted-
"Mid-North Essex |
Mid-South Essex |
North-East Essex |
North-West Essex |
South-East Essex |
South-West Essex"(4); |
(c)for the entries in column 1 opposite the entry "KENT" in column 2 there shall be substituted-
"Canterbury and St. Augustine |
Channel |
Dartford and Gravesham |
Faversham and Sittingbourne |
Medway |
Mid Kent |
Thanet |
West Kent"(5); |
(d)for the entries in column 1 opposite the entry "STAFFORDSHIRE" in column 2 there shall be substituted-
"Burton upon Trent |
Cannock and Seisdon |
Lichfield and Tamworth |
Mid Staffordshire and Rugeley |
North Staffordshire |
Stoke-on-Trent"(6); |
(e)for the entries in column 1 opposite the entry "WILTSHIRE" in column 2 there shall be substituted-
"North West Wiltshire |
South East Wiltshire |
Swindon"(7). |
Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor
Jane Kennedy
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Chancellor's Department
Dated 1st December 1999
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the list of petty sessions areas in the Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999 (which was the list of petty sessions areas in existence immediately before 27th September 1999) to take account of changes that were effected by Orders made before 27th September 1999, but coming into force on 1st January 2000.
1997 c. 25. A new version of section 4 was substituted by section 75 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).
S.I. 1999/3009.
The petty sessions area of Dartford and Gravesham was constituted by S.I. 1999/2105. The other petty sessions areas are unchanged.
The petty sessions areas of Cannock and Seisdon, Lichfield and Tamworth, Mid Staffordshire and Rugeley, and North Staffordshire were constituted by S.I. 1999/2399. The other petty sessions areas are unchanged.