{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commission-areas-sussex-order-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2530",
  "legislation_title": "The Commission Areas (Sussex) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commission-areas-sussex-order-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 12th July 2001\nLaid before Parliament 16th July 2001\nComing into force 1st January 2002\nWhereas the Sussex magistrates' courts committee have, in pursuance of section 32A(1) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997, submitted to the Lord Chancellor written proposals for the alteration of commission areas including parts of the area for which they are the committee;\nAnd whereas by section 32A(4) and (5) of that Act it is provided that any order made by the Lord Chancellor under section 1(2) of that 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;\nAnd whereas the provisions of section 32A(2) of that Act have been complied with:\nNow, therefore, the Lord Chancellor, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 1(2) of that Act, makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 25, new section 1 was substituted by, and section 32A was inserted by, section 74 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2530/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:40:39.858975+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}