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  "legislation_title": "Access to Justice Act 1999",
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  "heading": "Magistrates and magistrates’ courts",
  "text": "(1)\nAreas\nReference\nShort title or title\nExtent of repeal or revocation\n6 & 7 Vict. c. 86.\nThe London Hackney Carriages Act 1843.\nIn section 24, the words from “, or, if he shall dwell” to “the said city,”, the words “or justice” and the words “, or to some justice as aforesaid,”.\n16 & 17 Vict. c. 33.\nThe London Hackney Carriage Act 1853.\nIn section 18, the words from “or if the offence,”, in the second place, to the end.\n31 & 32 Vict. c. 72.\nThe Promissory Oaths Act 1868.\nIn the Second Part of the Schedule, the words “for counties and boroughs”.\n50 & 51 Vict. c. 55.\nThe Sheriffs Act 1887.\nIn section 38, the words from “(within” to “1997)”.\n60 & 61 Vict. c. 26.\nThe Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897.\nSection 7(1).\n10 & 11 Geo.5 c. 33.\nThe Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920.\nIn section 3(4), the words from “(within” to “1997)”.\n23 Geo.5 c. 12.\nThe Children and Young Persons Act 1933.\nSection 48(5).\nIn the Second Schedule, in Part I, paragraph 8A.\n2 & 3 Geo.6 c. xcvii.\nThe London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939.\nIn section 151(1)(bb), the word “the” immediately preceding “magistrates’ courts”, the words from “in the inner” to “London)” and the words “in that area”.\n11 & 12 Geo.6 c. 29.\nThe National Assistance Act 1948.\nIn section 43(4), the words from “(within” to “1997)”.\n12, 13 & 14 Geo.6 c. 76.\nThe Marriage Act 1949.\nIn section 3(5), the words from “(within” to “1997)”.\n14 & 15 Geo.6 c. 65.\nThe Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951.\nIn Part II of Schedule 2, paragraph 5(b) and, in paragraph 6(b), in the third column, the words from “and where” to the end.\n7 & 8 Eliz.2 c. 7.\nThe Manœuvres Act 1958.\nIn section 9, the definition of “petty sessions area”.\n1964 c. 26.\nThe Licensing Act 1964.\nIn section 2, in subsection (1), the words from “, within” to the end and subsection (2A).\n1964 c. 42.\nThe Administration of Justice Act 1964.\nIn section 12(1), the words from the beginning to “reference to the inner London area,”.\nIn section 38(1), the definition beginning “London commission areas”.\nIn Schedule 3, paragraph 29.\n1969 c. 54.\nThe Children and Young Persons Act 1969.\nIn section 70(1), in the definition of “petty sessions area”, the words “has the same meaning as in the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, except that” and the word “it”.\n1973 c. 18.\nThe Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.\nIn section 35(3), the words from “(within” to “1997)”.\n1974 c. 47.\nThe Solicitors Act 1974.\nSection 38(4).\n1978 c. 22.\nThe Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978.\nIn section 88(1), the definitions of “commission area” and “petty sessions area”.\n1980 c. 43.\nThe Magistrates’ Court Act 1980.\nIn section 52, the second sentence.\nIn section 67, in subsection (4), the second sentence and subsection (8).\nIn section 150(1), the definitions of “commission area”, “London commission area” and “petty sessions area”.\nIn Schedule 7, paragraphs 27 and 85.\n1980 c. 66.\nThe Highways Act 1980.\nIn section 329(1), the definition of “petty sessions area”.\n1984 c. 37.\nThe Child Abduction Act 1984.\nIn the Schedule, in paragraph 5(b), the words from “(within” to “1997)”.\nS.I. 1985/1383.\nThe Local Government (Magistrates’ Courts etc.) Order 1985.\nIn the Schedule, paragraphs 1 and 2.\n1988 c. 52.\nThe Road Traffic Act 1988.\nIn section 192(1), the definition of “petty sessions area”.\n1988 c. 53.\nThe Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.\nIn section 34C(2), the definition of “petty sessions area”.\nIn section 89(1), the definition of “petty sessions area”, apart from the word “and” at the end.\n1989 c. 41.\nThe Children Act 1989.\nIn Schedule 1, in paragraph 10(6), the words from “(within” to “1997)”.\nIn Schedule 11, in paragraph 8(d), the words “and (8)”.\n1990 c. 18.\nThe Computer Misuse Act 1990.\nSection 11(6).\n1992 c. 19.\nThe Local Government Act 1992.\nIn section 19(2)(d)(i), the words from “(within” to “1997)”.\n1993 c. 47.\nThe Probation Service Act 1993.\nIn Schedule 1, paragraph 6(4).\n1994 c. 19.\nThe Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.\nIn section 55(2)(a), the words from “(within” to “1997)”.\n1994 c. 29.\nThe Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994.\nIn Schedule 8, paragraph 35.\nS.I. 1996/674.\nThe Local Government Changes for England (Magistrates’ Courts) Regulations 1996.\nIn the Schedule, paragraphs 2(1), (3) and (7) and 5.\nS.I. 1996/675.\nThe Magistrates’ Courts (Wales) (Consequences of Local Government Changes) Order 1996.\nIn Part II of the Schedule, paragraph 7.\n1997 c. 25.\nThe Justices of the Peace Act 1997.\nSection 5(2)(b) and the preceding “and”.\nIn section 7(3), the words from “(whether” to “acting Chief Magistrate)”.\nSection 21 (and the preceding heading).\nSection 23.\nIn section 25, in subsection (1), the words “, other than the City of London,” and subsection (3).\nIn section 34(1)(a)(ii) and (3)(c), the words “any existing petty sessional division in”.\nSections 35 and 36.\nSection 68(2).\nIn section 70, in subsection (1), the words from the beginning to “above,”, the words “or to county justices” and the words “or justices for the City” and, in subsection (2), the words “or to justices or magistrates for a county or non-metropolitan county” and the words “or to justices or magistrates for the City”.\nSection 71.\nIn section 72, in subsection (1), the definition of “commission area”, the definition of “London commission areas”, “inner London area” and “outer London areas” and the definitions of “petty sessions areas”, “preserved county” and “retained county”, and subsection (2).\nSchedules 1 and 2.\nIn Schedule 4, paragraph 6.\nIn Schedule 5, paragraphs 1 to 8, 14, 16(b) and the preceding “and”, 18, 19(3)(a) and (b) and (5), 20, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34 and 35.\n(2)\nConstitution of youth courts\nChapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n23 Geo.5 c. 12.\nThe Children and Young Persons Act 1933.\nIn the Second Schedule, in Part I, the headings “Outside Metropolitan Area” and “Youth court panels”, paragraph 1 and, in paragraph 10(a), the words “(except where the committee’s area is a borough)” and Part II.\n1964 c. 42.\nThe Administration of Justice Act 1964.\nSection 12.\n1969 c. 54.\nThe Children and Young Persons Act 1969.\nIn section 70(1), the definition of “petty sessions area”.\n1980 c. 43.\nThe Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.\nIn section 146, in subsection (4), the words from “with respect to the making” to the end and subsection (5).\n1985 c. 61.\nThe Administration of Justice Act 1985.\nSection 61.\n1991 c. 53.\nThe Criminal Justice Act 1991.\nIn Schedule 11, paragraph 40(2)(f) and (p).\n1998 c. 37.\nThe Crime and Disorder Act 1998.\nSection 48.\n1999 c. 22.\nThe Access to Justice Act 1999.\nIn Schedule 10, paragraphs 16(2) and (4) and 35.\n(3)\nUnification and renaming of stipendiary bench\nChapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n3 & 4 Vict. c. 84.\nThe Metropolitan Courts Act 1840.\nSection 6.\n16 & 17 Vict. c. 33.\nThe London Hackney Carriage Act 1853.\nIn section 18, the words from “or if the offence,”, in the second place, to “for the county;”.\n33 & 34 Vict. c. 78.\nThe Tramways Act 1870.\nIn section 3, the words from “The term “two justices”” to the end.\n34 & 35 Vict. c. 78.\nThe Regulation of Railways Act 1871.\nIn section 2, the words “metropolitan police magistrate,”.\n35 & 36 Vict. c. 50.\nThe Railway Rolling Stock Protection Act 1872.\nIn section 2, the words “metropolitan police magistrate,”.\n46 & 47 Vict. c. 3.\nThe Explosive Substances Act 1883.\nIn section 6(1), the words “police court, or”.\n57 & 58 Vict. c. 2.\nThe Behring Sea Award Act 1894.\nSection 519 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854 set out in the Second Schedule.\n8 Edw.7 c. 53.\nThe Law of Distress Amendment Act 1908.\nIn section 4, in the proviso, the words from “a stipendiary magistrate” to “magistrate for”.\n1964 c. 42.\nThe Administration of Justice Act 1964.\nIn section 38(1), the definition of “stipendiary magistrates”.\nIn Schedule 3, in Part I, paragraphs 2 to 4.\n1980 c. 43.\nThe Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.\nSection 67(7).\nSection 137(6).\n1985 c. 23.\nThe Prosecution of Offences Act 1985.\nIn section 21(6)(a), the words “for any area”.\n1989 c. 33.\nThe Extradition Act 1989.\nSection 8(1)(b)(i) and (2).\nIn section 9(1), the words from “consisting” to the end.\nIn section 35(1), the definitions of “designated metropolitan magistrate” and “metropolitan magistrate”.\nIn Schedule 1, in paragraph 5(1)(b), the words “a metropolitan magistrate or” and paragraph 13(2).\n1989 c. 41.\nThe Children Act 1989.\nIn Schedule 11, in paragraph 8, in sub-paragraph (c), the words “66(1) and (2),” and, in sub-paragraph (d), the words “66(2),” and “and (7)”.\n1994 c. 19.\nThe Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.\nIn section 55(2)(a), the words “stipendiary magistrate,”.\n1997 c. 25.\nThe Justices of the Peace Act 1997.\nSection 22(5).\nIn section 24(1), the words “(other than metropolitan stipendiary magistrates)”.\nIn section 55(8), the words “Subject to section 14(1) above,”.\nIn section 72(1), the definition of “stipendiary magistrate”.\nIn Schedule 4, in Part II, paragraphs 9 and 12.\nIn Schedule 5, paragraphs 13(3) and 17.\n1997 c. 50.\nThe Police Act 1997.\nIn section 6(5), the words “appointed for an area”.\nIn section 52(5), the words “appointed for an area”.\n(4)\nJustices not to sit on committal for sentence\nChapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n1981 c. 54.\nThe Senior Courts Act 1981.\nIn section 74, in subsection (1), paragraph (b) and the preceding “or” and, in subsection (7), paragraph (b) and, in paragraph (c), the words “or on committal to the Crown Court for sentence”.\n(5)\nMagistrates’ courts committees\nChapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n1972 c. 70.\nThe Local Government Act 1972.\nIn Schedule 12A, in Part I, in paragraph 2(a), the words “, within the meaning of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997”.\n1997 c. 25.\nThe Justices of the Peace Act 1997.\nSection 32.\nSection 38(6).\nSection 49.\nIn section 72(1), the definition of “magistrates’ courts committee areas”.\nIn Schedule 5, paragraph 11.\n(6)\nGreater London Magistrates’ Courts Authority\nChapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n60 & 61 Vict. c. 26.\nThe Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897.\nSections 3 and 4.\n2 & 3 Geo.6 c. xcvii.\nThe London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939.\nIn section 151(1)(bb), the words “magistrates’ courts”.\n1965 c. 63.\nThe Public Works Loans Act 1965.\nIn section 2(1)(a), the word “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (iii).\n1967 c. 28.\nThe Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967.\nSection 15(1)(a)(ii) and (9).\n1968 c. 13.\nThe National Loans Act 1968.\nIn Schedule 4, in paragraph 1(a), the word “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (iii).\n1971 c. 56.\nThe Pensions (Increase) Act 1971.\nIn Schedule 6, paragraph (d).\n1991 c. 53.\nThe Criminal Justice Act 1991.\nSection 76(5).\n1994 c. 29.\nThe Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994.\nIn Schedule 8, paragraphs 24, 25 and 33(5).\n1997 c. 25.\nThe Justices of the Peace Act 1997.\nIn section 10(8), the words “the City of London, a London borough,” and the words from “and for” to the end.\nIn section 54(9), the definition of “local funds”.\nIn section 55, subsection (8) and, in subsection (10), in the definition of “responsible authority”, paragraph (d) and the words from “or the” to the end.\nSection 56(4).\nIn section 72(1), the definition of “inner London area”.\nSchedule 3.\nIn Schedule 4, paragraphs 7, 8, 10 and 11.\n1999 c. 22.\nThe Access to Justice Act 1999.\nIn Schedule 10, paragraphs 39, 40(2)(a), 51, 52(2) and 53.\nIn Schedule 11, paragraph 10.\nIn Schedule 14, paragraph 28(2).\n(7)\nJustices’ chief executives\nChapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n10 & 11 Geo.5 c. 33.\nThe Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920.\nIn section 4(6A)(b), the words from “and as if” to the end.\n14 Geo.6 c. 37.\nThe Maintenance Orders Act 1950.\nIn section 22(1E)(a), the words from “and as if” to the end.\nIn section 28(1), in the definition of “collecting officer”, the words from “in”, in the first place, to “and”.\n6 & 7 Eliz.2 c. 39.\nThe Maintenance Orders Act 1958.\nIn section 4(5B)(a), the words from “and as if” to the end.\nIn section 21(1), the definition of “proper officer”.\n1964 c. 26.\nThe Licensing Act 1964.\nIn section 22(4), the words from ““as in” to “magistrates’ court”.\nSection 30(2).\n1968 c. 65.\nThe Gaming Act 1968.\nIn Schedule 2, in paragraph 2(2), the definition of “the clerk to the licensing authority”.\n1971 c. 32.\nThe Attachment of Earnings Act 1971.\nIn section 25(1), the words from “and, in relation to” to the end.\n1972 c. 18.\nThe Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972.\nIn section 9(1ZA)(b), the words from “and as if” to the end.\n1986 c. 64.\nThe Public Order Act 1986.\nSection 34(3).\n1988 c. 33.\nThe Criminal Justice Act 1988.\nSection 41(13).\nSection 81(10).\n1988 c. 53.\nThe Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.\nIn section 34C(2), the words from “and any reference” to the end.\nSection 71(4) and (5).\nIn section 89(1), the definition of “justices’ clerk”.\n1989 c. 4.\nThe Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989.\nIn Schedule 4, in paragraph 1(5), the words from “and in this sub-paragraph” to the end.\n1994 c. 37.\nThe Drug Trafficking Act 1994.\nSection 30(9).\n1997 c. 25.\nThe Justices of the Peace Act 1997.\nSection 31(2).\nSection 40(5).\nSection 46.\nIn section 60, in subsection (1), paragraph (b)(ii) and the preceding “and” and subsection (4).\nIn Schedule 4, in Part II, paragraphs 15 and 18.\nIn Schedule 5, in paragraph 23, paragraph (b) and the preceding “and” and, in paragraph 36, paragraph (b) and the preceding “and”.\n1998 c. 37.\nThe Crime and Disorder Act 1998.\nIn Schedule 3, paragraph 6(11).\n(8)\nWarrants\nReference\nShort title or title\nExtent of repeal or revocation\n6 & 7 Eliz.2 c. 39.\nThe Maintenance Orders Act 1958.\nIn section 2(4), paragraph (b), apart from the word “and” at the end.\nIn section 5(4), paragraph (b), apart from the word “and” at the end.\n1980 c. 43.\nThe Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.\nSection 83(4).\nIn section 125, in subsection (2), the second paragraph and subsections (3) and (4).\n1984 c. 60.\nThe Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.\nSection 33.\n1988 c. 33.\nThe Criminal Justice Act 1988.\nSection 65.\n1990 c. 41.\nThe Courts and Legal Services Act 1990.\nIn Schedule 17, paragraph 11.\n1996 c. 14.\nThe Reserve Forces Act 1996.\nIn Schedule 10, paragraph 18.\nS.I.1997/1898.\nThe Family Law Act 1996 (Modification of Enactments) Order 1997.\nArticle 3.\n1998 c. 37.\nThe Crime and Disorder Act 1998.\nIn Schedule 8, paragraph 44.\n1999 c. 23.\nThe Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.\nIn Schedule 4, paragraph 8.",
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      "text": "Sch. 15 Pt. V: for the words \"Supreme Court Act 1981\" wherever they occur there is substituted (1.10.2009) the words \"Senior Courts Act 1981\" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 1(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2"
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      "text": "Sch. 15 Pt. V partly in force; Sch. 15 Pt. V not in force at Royal Assent see s. 108(1); Sch. 15 Pt. V(1)(5) in force for certain purposes at 27.9.1999 see s. 108(3)(f)(4); Sch. 15 Pt. V(7) in force for certain purposes at 27.9.1999 by S.I. 1999/2657, art. 2(d)(ii)(c); Sch. 15 Pt. V(4) in force for certain purposes at 12.11.1999 by S.I. 1999/2657, art. 4; Sch. 15 Pt. V(6) in force for certain purposes at 1.3.2000 by S.I. 1999/3344, art. 3(b) (with art. 4); Sch. 15 Pt. V(3) in force at 31.8.2000 by S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3(c); Sch. 15 Pt. V(8) in force for certain purposes at 8.1.2001 by S.I. 2000/3280, art. 2(c); Sch. 15 Pt. V(8) in force insofar as not already in force at 19.2.2001 by S.I. 2001/168, art. 2(b); Sch. 15 Pt. V(6)(7) in force insofar as not already in force at 1.4.2001 by S.I. 2001/916, art. 2(c)(i)(ii)"
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