BAILII is celebrating 24 years of free online access to the law! Would you consider making a contribution?
No donation is too small. If every visitor before 31 December gives just £1, it will have a significant impact on BAILII's ability to continue providing free access to the law.
Thank you very much for your support!
 |
[Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Multidatabase Search] [Help] [Feedback] | |
United Kingdom Statutory Instruments |
||
|
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Statutory Instruments >> The Commission Areas (Dyfed Powys) Order 2000 No. 3096 URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/legis/num_reg/2000/uksi_20003096_en.html |
||
[New search] [Help]
Statutory Instruments
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
14th November 2000
Laid before Parliament
21st November 2000
Coming into force
1st January 2001
Whereas the Dyfed Powys magistrates' courts committee have, in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 32A of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997(1), submitted to the Lord Chancellor written proposals for the alteration of commission areas including parts of the area for which they are the committee:
And whereas by subsections (4) and (5) of the said section it is provided that any order made by the Lord Chancellor under section 1(2) of the said Act shall be taken to implement such proposals if it does so either without changes or only with changes which do not appear to him to be important and that any such order may contain such consequential and transitional provisions as appear to him to be necessary or expedient:
And whereas the provisions of subsection (2) of section 32A of the Act of 1997 have been complied with:
Now, therefore, the Lord Chancellor, in exercise of powers conferred on him by the said section 1(2), makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Commission Areas (Dyfed Powys) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st January 2001.
2. In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires:-
"area" means a commission area including any part of the Dyfed Powys magistrates' courts committee area;
"abolished area" means one of the areas abolished by article 3 below;
"new area" means the area constituted by article 3(b) below;
any reference to a justice for an area shall be construed as a reference to a person who holds the commission of the peace for that area.
3. In Part II of the Schedule to the Justices of the Peace (Commission Areas) Order 1999(2):-
(a)the entry for Powys shall be omitted;
(b)for the entry for Dyfed there shall be substituted the following new entry:
| Name of commission area | Extent of commission area |
|---|---|
| Dyfed Powys | The area of Dyfed Powys MCC |
4. Every person who immediately before 1st January 2001 holds office as a justice of the peace for an abolished area shall on and after that date hold office as a justice of the peace for the new area, and the commissions of the peace for the abolished areas shall accordingly have effect as commissions of the peace for the new area until such time as a commission of the peace for that area is granted.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Jane Kennedy
Parliamentary Secretary,
Lord Chancellor's Department
14th November 2000
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order provides for the replacement of the two commission areas of Dyfed and Powys by a single commission area to be known as the Dyfed Powys commission area, and comes into force on 1st January 2001.
1997 c. 25; new section 1 was substituted by, and section 32A was inserted by, the Access to Justice Act 1999, section 74.
