{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/25",
  "legislation_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Commission areas.",
  "text": "(1) England and Wales shall be divided into areas for each of which there shall be a commission of the peace.\n(2) The areas shall be as specified by the Lord Chancellor by order made by statutory instrument; but a commission area may not consist of an area partly within and partly outside Greater London.\n(3) An area for which there is a commission of the peace shall be known as a commission area.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1 substituted for ss. 1, 2 (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 74(1), 108(3)(c) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1 amended (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 105, 108(3)(e), Sch. 14 para. 19 (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 1999/2657, art. 2(d)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/25/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:26:14.706489+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."
}