# The Courts Boards Areas (Amendment) Order 2004 S.I. 2004/1303 ยท made 5 May 2004 This Order substitutes a new Schedule to the Courts Boards (Areas) Order 2004 (made under section 4(2) of the Courts Act 2003). The new Schedule corrects the description of courts boards areas in England and Wales to reflect police areas as described in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 and recent amendments to local authority areas. The Lord Chancellor is required by section 4(7) of the Courts Act 2003 to have regard to police areas when making an Order specifying courts boards areas. Made under: Courts Act 2003 (Section 4) PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/courts-boards-areas-amendment-order-2004/pdf/uksi_20041303_en.pdf ## Introductory text SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES Made 5th May 2004 Laid before Parliament 11th May 2004 Coming into force 1st June 2004 The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 4(2) and 4(4) of the Courts Act 2003, makes the following Order: ## 1 Citation and commencement This Order may be cited as the Courts Boards Areas (Amendment) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 1st June 2004. ## 2 Amendments to the Courts Boards Areas Order 2004 For the Schedule to the Courts Boards Areas Order 2004 there shall be substituted the Schedule to this Order. ## Signature Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor Christopher Leslie Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department of Constitutional Affairs 5th May 2004 ## Table 1 England Avon and Somerset The county of Somerset and the non-metropolitan districts of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Bedfordshire The county of Bedfordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Luton Cambridgeshire The county of Cambridgeshire and the non-metropolitan district of Peterborough Cheshire The county of Cheshire and the non-metropolitan districts of Halton and Warrington Cleveland The non-metropolitan districts of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees Cumbria The county of Cumbria Derbyshire The county of Derbyshire and the non-metropolitan district of Derby Devon and Cornwall The counties of Devon and Cornwall, the non-metropolitan districts of Plymouth and Torbay and the Isles of Scilly Dorset The county of Dorset and the non-metropolitan districts of Bournemouth and Poole Durham The county of Durham and the non-metropolitan district of Darlington Essex The county of Essex and the non-metropolitan districts of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock Gloucestershire The county of Gloucestershire Greater Manchester The metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan Hampshire The counties of Hampshire and Isle of Wight and the non-metropolitan districts of Portsmouth and Southampton Hertfordshire The county of Hertfordshire Humberside The non-metropolitan districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire Kent The county of Kent and the non-metropolitan district of Medway Lancashire The county of Lancashire and the non-metropolitan districts of Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool Leicestershire The county of Leicestershire and the non-metropolitan districts of Leicester and Rutland Lincolnshire The county of Lincolnshire London Greater London Merseyside The metropolitan districts of Knowsley, Liverpool, St. Helens, Sefton and Wirral Norfolk The county of Norfolk Northamptonshire The county of Northamptonshire Northumbria The county of Northumberland and the metropolitan districts of Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland North Yorkshire The county of North Yorkshire and the non-metropolitan district of York Nottinghamshire The county of Nottinghamshire and the non-metropolitan district of Nottingham South Yorkshire The metropolitan districts of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Staffordshire The county of Staffordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk The county of Suffolk Surrey The county of Surrey Sussex The counties of East Sussex and West Sussex and the non-metropolitan district of Brighton and Hove Thames Valley The counties of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire and the non-metropolitan districts of Bracknell Forest, Milton Keynes Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham Warwickshire The county of Warwickshire West Mercia The counties of Shropshire and Worcestershire and the non-metropolitan districts of Herefordshire and Telford and The Wrekin West Midlands The metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton West Yorkshire The metropolitan districts of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield Wiltshire The county of Wiltshire and the non-metropolitan district of Swindon Table 2 Wales Dyfed Powys The counties of Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys Gwent The county of Monmouthshire and the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen North Wales The counties of the Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Flintshire and the county boroughs of Conwy and Wrexham South Wales The counties of Cardiff and Swansea and the county boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taff and the Vale of Glamorgan ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Order) This Order substitutes a new Schedule to the Courts Boards (Areas) Order 2004 (made under section 4(2) of the Courts Act 2003). The new Schedule corrects the description of courts boards areas in England and Wales to reflect police areas as described in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 and recent amendments to local authority areas. The Lord Chancellor is required by section 4(7) of the Courts Act 2003 to have regard to police areas when making an Order specifying courts boards areas. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1303 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/courts-boards-areas-amendment-order-2004 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.