{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-26.json",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  "legislation_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed",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/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to the area consisting of the counties of Greater Manchester and Merseyside and the retained county of Lancashire; and for this purpose the retained county of Lancashire is that county as it stood immediately before 1st April 1995.\n(2) Sections 5(1), 6 and 25 above have effect—\n(a) in the case of a commission area which is wholly included within the area to which this section applies with the substitution, for any reference to the Lord Chancellor, of a reference to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; and\n(b) in the case of a commission area which is partly included within that area with the substitution, for any reference to the Lord Chancellor, of a reference to the Lord Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster acting jointly.\n(3) Sections 7(4) to (6) and 8 above have effect—\n(a) in the case of a person who is a justice of the peace only for a commission area which is wholly included within that area with the substitution, for any reference to the Lord Chancellor, of a reference to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; and\n(b) in the case of a person who is a justice either for such a commission area and another commission area or for a commission area which is partly included within that area with the substitution, for any reference to the Lord Chancellor, of a reference to the Lord Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster acting jointly.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 26 substituted (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 76, 108(3)(c), Sch. 10 paras. 47, 50 (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/25/section/26",
    "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."
}