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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-justice-areas-order-2016/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-justice-areas-order-2016/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/941",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Justice Areas Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-justice-areas-order-2016",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order creates fifteen new local justice areas by combining certain existing local justice areas. It amends the list of local justice areas in the Local Justice Areas Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/554) to reflect changes.\nThe new local justice areas and the existing areas they combine are as follows:\nAvon and Somerset replaces the areas of Bristol, North Avon and Somerset.\nCardiff replaces the areas of Newcastle and Ogmore and Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.\nCheshire replaces the areas of North Cheshire, South and East Cheshire, and West Cheshire.\nCleveland replaces the areas of Hartlepool and Teesside.\nEast Hampshire replaces the areas of South East Hampshire and South Hampshire.\nHumber replaces the areas of East Yorkshire, Grimsby and Cleethorpes, Hull and Holderness, and North Lincolnshire.\nMerseyside replaces the areas of Liverpool and Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral.\nMid Wales replaces the areas of Brecknock and Radnorshire and Glamorgan Valleys.\nNorthamptonshire replaces the areas of Corby, Kettering, and Northampton, Daventry and Towcester, and Wellingborough.\nNorth Central Wales replaces the areas of Conwy and Denbighshire.\nNorth West Wales replaces the areas of Gwynedd and Ynys Môn/ Anglesey.\nSouth Yorkshire replaces the areas of Barnsley District, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield.\nStaffordshire replaces the areas of Central and Southwest Staffordshire, North Staffordshire, and South East Staffordshire.\nSurrey replaces the areas of North Surrey, South East Surrey, and South West Surrey.\nWest Yorkshire replaces the areas of Bradford and Keighley, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds District, and Wakefield and Pontefract.\nThe Order comes into force on 14th October 2016 for the purposes of enabling persons to be elected on the basis of the new local justice areas; and for filling any vacancies of chairman or deputy chairman which arise prior to 1st April 2017. The Order comes into force on 1 April 2017 for all other purposes.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/941/note",
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  "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."
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