{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-justice-areas-order-2016/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-justice-areas-order-2016/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/941",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Justice Areas Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-justice-areas-order-2016",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "New Areas",
  "text": "(1) The existing areas of—\n(a) Bristol,\n(b) North Avon, and\n(c) Somerset,\nare combined to become a new area named Avon and Somerset.\n(2) The existing areas of—\n(a) Newcastle and Ogmore, and\n(b) Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan,\nare combined to become a new area named Cardiff.\n(3) The existing areas of—\n(a) North Cheshire,\n(b) South and East Cheshire, and\n(c) West Cheshire,\nare combined to become a new area named Cheshire.\n(4) The existing areas of—\n(a) Hartlepool, and\n(b) Teesside,\nare combined to become a new area of Cleveland.\n(5) The existing areas of—\n(a) South East Hampshire, and\n(b) South Hampshire,\nare combined to become a new area named East Hampshire.\n(6) The existing areas of—\n(a) East Yorkshire,\n(b) Grimsby and Cleethorpes,\n(c) Hull and Holderness, and\n(d) North Lincolnshire,\nare combined to become a new area named Humber.\n(7) The existing areas of—\n(a) Liverpool and Knowsley,\n(b) Sefton,\n(c) St Helens, and\n(d) Wirral,\nare combined to become a new area named Merseyside.\n(8) The existing areas of—\n(a) Brecknock and Radnorshire, and\n(b) Glamorgan Valleys,\nare combined to become a new area named Mid Wales.\n(9) The existing areas of—\n(a) Corby,\n(b) Kettering,\n(c) Northampton, Daventry and Towcester, and\n(d) Wellingborough,\nare combined to become a new area named Northamptonshire.\n(10) The existing areas of—\n(a) Conwy, and\n(b) Denbighshire,\nare combined to become a new area named North Central Wales.\n(11) The existing areas of—\n(a) Gwynedd, and\n(b) Ynys Môn/ Anglesey\nare combined to become a new area named North West Wales.\n(12) The existing areas of—\n(a) Barnsley District,\n(b) Doncaster,\n(c) Rotherham, and\n(d) Sheffield,\nare combined to become a new area named South Yorkshire.\n(13) The existing areas of—\n(a) Central and South West Staffordshire,\n(b) North Staffordshire, and\n(c) South East Staffordshire,\nare combined to become a new area named Staffordshire.\n(14) The existing areas of—\n(a) North Surrey\n(b) South East Surrey, and\n(c) South West Surrey,\nare combined to become a new area named Surrey.\n(15) The existing areas of—\n(a) Bradford and Keighley,\n(b) Calderdale,\n(c) Kirklees,\n(d) Leeds District, and\n(e) Wakefield and Pontefract,\nare combined to become a new area named West Yorkshire.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/941/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:50.385734+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."
}