Paragraph 2 Magistrates' Courts Act 1980

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. para. 2(1) revoked by Access to Justice Act 1999 Sch. 15 Pt. 5
Sch. para. 2(3) revoked by Access to Justice Act 1999 Sch. 15 Pt. 5
Sch. para. 2(7) revoked by Access to Justice Act 1999 Sch. 15 Pt. 5
Sch. para. 5 revoked by Access to Justice Act 1999 Sch. 15 Pt. 5
Sch. para. 1 revoked by Justices of the Peace Act 1997 Sch. 6 Pt. 2
Sch. para. 4(2) revoked by Justices of the Peace Act 1997 Sch. 6 Pt. 2

(1)

In section 1(8) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980^f1 for the words from “any county” to the end there shall be substituted “any commission area in England or preserved county in Wales”.

(2)

In section 2(1) and (3) of that Act—

(a)

for “a county in England, a preserved county in Wales, a London commission area or the City of London” there shall be substituted “a commission area in England or a preserved county in Wales”;

(b)

for “the county, the preserved county, the London commission area or the City” there shall be substituted “the commission area or preserved county”.

(3)

In section 3(4) of that Act for the words from “any county” to the end there shall be substituted “any commission area in England or preserved county in Wales”.

(4)

In section 97(1) of that Act—

(a)

for “any county, any London commission area or the City of London” there shall be substituted “any commission area in England or any county in Wales”;

(b)

for “that county, that London commission area or the City” there shall be substituted “that commission area or county”.

(5)

In section 97(1A) of that Act, for “that county, that London commission area or the City”there shall be substituted “that commission area or county”.

(6)

In section 116(3) of that Act, for the words from “any county” to the end there shall be substituted “commission areas in England and counties in Wales”.

(7)

The following shall be inserted after the definition of “bail in criminal proceedings” in section 150(1) of that Act—

““commission area”, in relation to England, has the meaning given by section 1 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1980 c. 43, as amended by paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19).