{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-wales-consequences-of-local-government-changes-order-1996/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-wales-consequences-of-local-government-changes-order-1996/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/675",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Wales) (Consequences of Local Government Changes) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-wales-consequences-of-local-government-changes-order-1996",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where by virtue of an order under section 55 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 one or more commission areas are created, abolished or altered, article 3 shall have effect in relation to that change with the following modifications:\n(a) for every reference to 1st April 1996 there shall be substituted the date on which the order comes into force;\n(b) for the reference to section 1 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 there shall be substituted a reference to the order;\n(c) at the end of paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the words “until such time as commissions of the peace for the new commission areas are granted”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/675/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:54.844713+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."
}