# The Courts Boards Areas Order 2004 S.I. 2004/1192 ยท made 21 April 2004 This is the first Order made under section 4 of the Courts Act 2003. It names and specifies courts boards areas in England and Wales. Made under: Courts Act 2003 (Section 4); Police Act 1996 PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/courts-boards-areas-order-2004/pdf/uksi_20041192_en.pdf ## Introductory text SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES Made 21st April 2004 Coming into force 1st June 2004 The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 4(2) of the Courts Act 2003, having regard to the desirability of specifying areas which are the same as the police areas listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 and the area consisting of the Metropolitan Police District and the City of London police area, hereby makes the following Order a draft of which has, in accordance with section 108(2) and (3) of the Courts Act 2003, been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament: ## 1 Citation and commencement This Order may be cited as the Court Boards Areas Order 2004 and shall come into force on 1st June 2004. ## 2 Courts Boards areas Each of the areas respectively named in column 1, and specified in column 2 of Table 1 of the Schedule to this Order, is a courts board area in England. ## 3 Courts Boards areas Each of the areas respectively named in column 1, and specified in column 2 of Table 2 of the Schedule to this Order, is a courts board area in Wales. ## Signature Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor Christopher Leslie Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department of Constitutional Affairs Dated 21st April 2004 ## Table 1 England Avon and Somerset The county of Somerset and the non-metropolitan districts of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North West Somerset and South Gloucestershire Bedfordshire The county of Bedfordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Luton Cambridgeshire The county of Cambridgeshire Cheshire The county of Cheshire 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 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 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 Lancashire The county of Lancashire 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 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 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Milton Keynes Warwickshire The county of Warwickshire West Mercia The counties of Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire 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 Thamesdown Table 2 Wales Dyfed Powys The counties of Cardiganshire, 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 Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire and the county boroughs of Aberconwy and Colwyn and Wrexham South Wales The counties of Cardiff and Swansea and the county boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath and Port Talbot, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff and the Vale of Glamorgan ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Order) This is the first Order made under section 4 of the Courts Act 2003. It names and specifies courts boards areas in England and Wales. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1192 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/courts-boards-areas-order-2004 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.