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MAGISTRATES' COURTS

Made 10th December 1998

Laid before Parliament 14th December 1998

Coming into force

for the purpose of articles 2 and 4 1st April 2000

for all other purposes 4th January 1999

Whereas the magistrates' courts committees for the retained counties^f1 of Avon and Somerset have submitted proposals to the Lord Chancellor under section 32(1) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997^f2 for the amalgamation of the magistrates' courts committees for those retained counties:

And whereas the provisions of section 32(2) of that Act have been complied with:

Now, therefore, the Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 32(3) and (8) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:

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Footnotes

f1: “retained county” is defined by section 72(1) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) in relation to England as the area of a non-metropolitan county created by Part I of the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), as it stood immediately before 1st April 1995.
f2: 1997 c. 25.