Article 1 Citation, Commencement and Interpretation

This Order may be cited as the Community Justice Authorities (Establishment, Constitution and Proceedings) (Scotland) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 3rd April 2006.

In this Order–

• “authority” means a community justice authority established by article 2 of this Order;

• “local authority election” means an election conducted in terms of section 5 of the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994^f1;

• “relevant local authority” means, in relation to any community justice authority specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order, one of the local authorities specified in the second column of the Schedule to this Order, adjacent to the name of the community justice authority.