# The Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999 S.I. 1999/3009 · made 3 November 1999 This is the first Order made under section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 as substituted by section 75 of the Access to Justice Act 1999. It specifies the petty sessions areas for England and Wales. Each of the areas was a petty sessions area immediately before section 75 came into force. Made under: Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (repealed) (Section 4); Access to Justice Act 1999 (Schedule 14 paragraph 20) PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-order-1999/pdf/uksi_19993009_en.pdf ## Introductory text JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ENGLAND AND WALES Made 3rd November 1999 Coming into force 1st December 1999 The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 and paragraph 20 of Schedule 14 to the Access to Justice Act 1999, makes the following Order: ## 1 Citation and commencement This Order may be cited as the Petty Sessions Areas Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st December 1999. ## 2 Petty sessions areas (1) Each of the petty sessions areas specified in column 1 of Part I of the Schedule to this Order is a petty sessions area in England which comprises or is part of the magistrates' courts committee area shown in column 2 of Part I of the Schedule to this Order. (2) Each of the petty sessions areas specified in column 1 of Part II of the Schedule to this Order is a petty sessions area in Wales which comprises or is part of the magistrates' courts committee area shown in column 2 of Part II of the Schedule to this Order. (3) The petty sessions areas specified in the Schedule to this Order are also shown on a map of petty sessions areas in England and Wales kept by the Lord Chancellor’s Department. ## Signature Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor Jane Kennedy Parliamentary Secretary Lord Chancellor’s Department 3rd November 1999 ## I Petty sessions areas in England Column 1 Column 2 Petty sessions area Magistrates' courts committee area Bath and Wansdyke Bristol North Avon Woodspring AVON Barking BARKING AND DAGENHAM Barnet BARNET Barnsley District BARNSLEY Ampthill Bedford Biggleswade Dunstable Leighton Buzzard Luton BEDFORDSHIRE Bexley BEXLEY Brent BRENT Bromley BROMLEY Calderdale CALDERDALE Cambridge East Cambridgeshire Fenland Huntingdonshire Peterborough CAMBRIDGESHIRE Chester Ellesmere Port and Neston Halton Macclesfield South Cheshire Vale Royal Warrington CHESHIRE City of London (The Justice Rooms) CITY OF LONDON Hartlepool Langbaurgh East Teesside CLEVELAND Croydon CROYDON Appleby Carlisle Furness and District Kendal and Lonsdale Keswick Penrith and Alston South Lakes West Allerdale Whitehaven Wigton CUMBRIA Chesterfield Derby and South Derbyshire East Derbyshire Glossop High Peak West Derbyshire DERBYSHIRE Axminster and Honiton Barnstaple and South Molton Bideford and Great Torrington Bodmin Cullompton Dunheved and Stratton East Penwith East Powder Exeter and Wonford Exmouth Falmouth and Kerrier Isles of Scilly Penwith Plymouth Pydar Teignbridge Tiverton Torbay Truro and South Powder South East Cornwall South Hams West Devon DEVON AND CORNWALL Doncaster DONCASTER Bournemouth and Christchurch Central Dorset Poole West Dorset Weymouth and Portland DORSET Chester-le-Street Darlington Derwentside Durham Easington Sedgefield Teesdale and Wear Valley DURHAM Ealing EALING Brighton and Hove Eastbourne and Hailsham Hastings and Rother Lewes and Crowborough EAST SUSSEX Enfield ENFIELD Basildon Braintree and Halstead Brentwood Chelmsford Colchester Dunmow and Saffron Walden Epping and Ongar Harlow Harwich Maldon and Witham Rochford and Southend-on-Sea Tendring Thurrock ESSEX Gateshead District GATESHEAD Cirencester, Fairford and Tetbury Forest of Dean Gloucester North Gloucestershire South Gloucestershire GLOUCESTERSHIRE New Forest North East Hampshire North West Hampshire South East Hampshire South Hampshire Southampton HAMPSHIRE Haringey HARINGEY Harrow Gore HARROW Havering HAVERING Bromsgrove and Redditch Herefordshire Severnminster South Worcestershire HEREFORD AND WORCESTER Dacorum East Hertfordshire Mid Hertfordshire North Hertfordshire St. Albans Watford HERTFORDSHIRE Hillingdon HILLINGDON Hounslow HOUNSLOW Bainton, Wilton and Holme Beacon Beverley Dickering and North Holderness Goole and Howdenshire Grimsby and Cleethorpes Kingston-upon-Hull North Lincolnshire South and Middle Holderness South Hunsley Beacon HUMBERSIDE East Central North Westminster South Central South Eastern South Western South Westminster Thames West London INNER LONDON Isle of Wight ISLE OF WIGHT Canterbury and St. Augustine Channel Dartford Faversham and Sittingbourne Gravesham Medway Mid Kent Thanet West Kent KENT Kingston upon Thames KINGSTON UPON THAMES Blackburn, Darwen and Ribble Valley Blackpool and Fylde Burnley and Pendle Chorley Hyndburn Lancaster Ormskirk Preston Rossendale South Ribble Wyre LANCASHIRE Leeds Morley Pudsey and Otley Skyrack and Wetherby LEEDS Ashby-de-la-Zouche Leicester Loughborough Market Bosworth Market Harborough and Lutterworth Melton, Belvoir and Rutland LEICESTERSHIRE Boston Bourne and Stamford Elloes Gainsborough Grantham Lincoln District Skegness Sleaford Wolds LINCOLNSHIRE Manchester MANCHESTER Knowsley Liverpool North Sefton District St. Helens South Sefton District Wirral MERSEYSIDE Merton MERTON Newcastle upon Tyne District NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Newham NEWHAM Central Norfolk Great Yarmouth North Norfolk Norwich South Norfolk West Norfolk NORFOLK Corby Daventry Kettering Northampton Towcester Wellingborough NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Alnwick Berwick-upon-Tweed South East Northumberland Tynedale NORTHUMBERLAND Bolton Bury City of Salford Leigh Rochdale, Middleton and Heywood Wigan NORTH AND WEST GREATER MANCHESTER North Tyneside District NORTH TYNESIDE Harrogate Northallerton and Richmond Scarborough Selby Skipton York NORTH YORKSHIRE East Retford Mansfield Newark and Southwell Nottingham Worksop NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Oldham OLDHAM Redbridge REDBRIDGE Richmond upon Thames RICHMOND UPON THAMES Rotherham ROTHERHAM Sheffield SHEFFIELD Bridgnorth Drayton Ludlow Oswestry Shrewsbury Telford SHROPSHIRE Mendip Sedgemoor South Somerset Taunton Deane West Somerset SOMERSET South Tyneside District SOUTH TYNESIDE Burton upon Trent Cannock Lichfield Mid Staffordshire Newcastle-under-Lyme and Pirehill North Rugeley Seisdon Staffordshire Moorlands Stoke-on-Trent Tamworth STAFFORDSHIRE Stockport STOCKPORT Deben Haverhill and Sudbury Ipswich North East Suffolk North West Suffolk St. Edmundsbury and Stowmarket SUFFOLK Houghton-le-Spring Sunderland SUNDERLAND North and East Surrey North West Surrey South East Surrey South West Surrey SURREY Sutton SUTTON Tameside TAMESIDE Central Buckinghamshire East Berkshire Milton Keynes Northern Oxfordshire Oxford Reading Southern Oxfordshire West Berkshire Wycombe and Beaconsfield THAMES VALLEY Trafford TRAFFORD Waltham Forest WALTHAM FOREST Atherstone and Coleshill Mid Warwickshire Nuneaton Rugby South Warwickshire WARWICKSHIRE Aldridge and Brownhills Birmingham Coventry District Dudley Solihull Stourbridge and Halesowen Sutton Coldfield Walsall Warley West Bromwich Wolverhampton WEST MIDLANDS Bradford Batley and Dewsbury Huddersfield Keighley Pontefract Wakefield WEST RIDING Arundel Chichester and District Crawley Horsham Mid Sussex Worthing and District WEST SUSSEX Kennet North Wiltshire Salisbury Swindon West Wiltshire WILTSHIRE ## II Petty sessions areas in Wales Column 1 Column 2 Petty sessions area Magistrates' courts committee area Carmarthen Ceredigion Dinefwr Llanelli North Pembrokeshire South Pembrokeshire DYFED Bedwellty East Gwent Lower Rhymney Valley Newport Upper Rhymney Valley GWENT Aberconwy Arfon Colwyn Denbighshire Dwyfor Flintshire Meirionnydd Wrexham Maelor Ynys Môn/Anglesey NORTH WALES De Breycheiniog De Maldwyn Radnorshire and North Brecknock Welshpool POWYS Cardiff Cynon Valley Merthyr Tydfil Miskin Newcastle and Ogmore Vale of Glamorgan SOUTH WALES Neath Port Talbot Swansea County WEST GLAMORGAN ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Order) This is the first Order made under section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 as substituted by section 75 of the Access to Justice Act 1999. It specifies the petty sessions areas for England and Wales. Each of the areas was a petty sessions area immediately before section 75 came into force. The map of petty sessions areas referred to in article 2(3) of the Order can be inspected at the Lord Chancellor’s Department, Selborne House, 54-60 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QW by any person at any reasonable time. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3009 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-order-1999 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.