{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-wales-consequences-of-local-government-changes-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-wales-consequences-of-local-government-changes-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-2.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": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Magistrates' Courts Act 1980",
  "text": "(1) In section 1(8) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, for the words from “any commission area” to the end there shall be substituted “commission areas”.\n(2) In section 2(1) and (3) of that Act—\n(a) the words “in England or a preserved county in Wales” shall be repealed;\n(b) the words “or preserved county (as the case may be)” shall be repealed.\n(3) In section 3(4) of that Act, for the words from “any commission area” to the end there shall be substituted “commission areas”.\n(4) In section 97(1) of that Act—\n(a) the words “in England or any county in Wales” shall be repealed;\n(b) the words “or county (as the case may be)” shall be repealed.\n(5) In section 97(1A) of that Act, the words “or county (as the case may be)” shall be repealed.\n(6) In section 116(3) of that Act, the words “in England and counties in Wales” shall be repealed.\n(7) In section 150(1) of that Act, the words “, in relation to England,” in the definition of“commission area”, and the definition of “preserved county”, shall be repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43, as amended by paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) and S.I. 1996/674."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1997/25",
      "affecting_title": "Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed)"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/22",
      "affecting_title": "Access to Justice Act 1999"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/675/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}