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The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2013

S.I. 2013/1626 · Made 2 July 2013

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Coroners, England And Wales

Made 2nd July 2013

Laid before Parliament 4th July 2013

Coming into force 26th July 2013

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009f1 and after consulting in accordance with that paragraph, makes the following Order.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2009 c. 25.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Citation and commencement
  3. 3Interpretation
  4. 4Altered coroner areas
  5. Signature
  6. Schedule Schedule
  7. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2013.

2Citation and commencement

This Order comes into force on the 26th July 2013.

3Interpretation

In this Order—

  • “coroner area” means a coroner area constituted by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Coroner Areas and Assistant Coroners) Transitional Order 2013f1;

  • “altered coroner area” means a new coroner area resulting from the amalgamation of coroner areas as set out in this Order.

4Altered coroner areas

Coroner areas listed in the first column of the table in the Schedule to this Order shall be amalgamated into the single coroner area listed in the corresponding entry in the second column.

Signature

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Helen Grant

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Justice

2nd July 2013

Coroner areas to be amalgamated

Altered coroner area

1. Carmarthenshire/ Sir Gaerfyrddin

2. Pembrokeshire / Sir Benfro

Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire / Sir Gaerfyrddin a Sir Benfro

1. Darlington and South Durham

2. North Durham

County Durham and Darlington

1. Derby and South Derbyshire

2. North Derbyshire

Derby and Derbyshire

1. Bournemouth, Poole and Eastern Dorset

2. Western Dorset

Dorset

1. Essex and Thurrock

2. Southend and South East Essex

Essex

1. Plymouth and South West Devon

2. Torbay and South Devon

Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon

1. Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys/ Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr a Chymoedd Morgannwg

2. Powys

Powys, Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys/ Powys, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr a Chymoedd Morgannwg

1. Mid and North West Shropshire

2. South Shropshire

3. The Wrekin

Shropshire, Telford and The Wrekin

1. Neath Port Talbot/ Castell-nedd Port Talbot

2. Swansea/ Abertawe

Swansea and Neath Port Talbot/ Abertawe a Chastell-nedd Port Talbot

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Coroner Areas and Assistant Coroners) Transitional Order 2013, which came into force on 25th July 2013, constituted the former coroners’ districts under the Coroners Act 1988 as coroner areas under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. This Order amalgamates nineteen of those coroner areas into nine new coroner areas, in accordance with Schedule 2 to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.