Explanatory note

This Order provides for the new local justice area named Black Country to replace the existing local justice areas of Dudley and Halesowen, Sandwell, Walsall and Aldridge and Wolverhampton. It also provides for the new local justice area named Birmingham and Solihull to replace the existing local justice areas of Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire to replace the existing local justice areas of Coventry District and Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire to replace the existing local justice areas of Mansfield and Worksop and Nottingham and Newark.

The Order comes into force on 30th August 2013 for the purpose of enabling appointments to be made, elections to be held and bodies formed on the basis of the altered local justice areas. The Order comes into force on 1st January 2014 for the substantive creation of the new local justice areas.