Regulation 2

In these Regulations—

• “committee” means a magistrates' courts committee established under section 19 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 acting for a non-metropolitan county, a metropolitan district or an outer London borough;

• “the Act” means the Justices of the Peace Act 1979;

• “the area” means the area to which a draft order or a report under section 23 of the Act, or a draft order under section 24A^f1 of the Act, relates.