{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-27A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-27A.json",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  "legislation_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed",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/27A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27A",
  "heading": "Committees.",
  "text": "(1) England and Wales outside Greater London shall be divided into areas for each of which there shall be a magistrates’ courts committee.\n(2) The areas of the committees shall be as specified by the Lord Chancellor by order made by statutory instrument.\n(3) Each area outside Greater London for which there is a magistrates’ courts committee shall—\n(a) consist of the whole of one or more commission areas or be included wholly within a single commission area; and\n(b) comprise the whole of one or more petty sessions areas.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 27-27B substituted for s. 27 (27.9.1999 with effect as mentioned in Sch. 14 para. 30 of the amending Act) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 81, 108(3)(c) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 27A amended (temp. from 27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 105, 108(3)(e), Sch. 14 Pt. V para. 29 (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/27A",
    "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."
}