{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-boards-areas-order-2004/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-boards-areas-order-2004/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1192",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts Boards Areas Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-boards-areas-order-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES\nCOUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 21st April 2004\nComing into force 1st June 2004\nThe 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:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 16 (division of England and Wales, except London, into police areas)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1192/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:27:01.379394+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."
}