{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed/section-70.json",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  "legislation_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justices-of-the-peace-act-1997-repealed",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/70",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Application of enactments to the City of London.",
  "text": "(1) . . . In any enactment relating to justices of the peace, magistrates’ courts, justices’ clerks or matters connected therewith (including, except to the extent that it otherwise expressly provides, any such enactment passed after the passing of this Act)—\n(a) any reference to a county . . . shall be taken to include the City of London . . .; and\n(b) any reference to a county council shall be taken to include the Corporation of the City acting through the Common Council, and references to a county fund shall be taken to include the City fund;\nbut in any such enactment which refers in the same context both to a non-metropolitan county and to a metropolitan district, the reference to a non-metropolitan county shall be taken to include the City.\n(2) Where any such enactment (including any enactment contained in this Act) expressly refers in the same context both—\n(a) to a county or non-metropolitan county . . .; and\n(b) to the City . . .,\nthe operation of that enactment shall not be affected by, and shall be without prejudice to the generality of, subsection (1) above.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 70(1) repealed (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 106, 108(3)(f), Sch. 15 Pt. V(1) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 1999/2657, art. 2(d)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 70(2) repealed (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 106, 108(3)(f), Sch. 15 Pt. V(1) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 1999/2657, art. 2(d)(iii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/25/section/70",
    "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."
}