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Article 2

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The magistrates' courts committees for the retained countiesf1 of Devon and Cornwall shall be abolished.

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“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. Section 71 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 provides that for the purposes of the Act the county and the retained county of Cornwall are to be treated as including the Isles of Scilly.