Section 79 Magistrates’ courts committee for inner London area.I1

England and Wales

(1)

Section 35 of the 1979 Act (under which the committee of magistrates for the inner London area is constituted) shall cease to have effect.

(2)

The body corporate constituted under that section shall remain in existence, but as a magistrates’ courts committee for the inner London area constituted in accordance with Part II of the 1979 Act.

(3)

Any reference in any document to the committee of magistrates shall have effect, in relation to any time after the commencement of subsection (2) above, as a reference to the magistrates’ courts committee for the inner London area.

(4)

In section 19(2) of the 1979 Act (areas to which magistrates’ courts committees relate) for the word “and" at the end of paragraph (c) there shall be substituted the words—

“(cc)
the inner London area; and”.

(5)

Section 38(2) of the 1979 Act (which confers administrative functions on the chief metropolitan stipendiary magistrate) shall cease to have effect.

(6)

Subsections (2) and (3) above have effect subject to any order made under section 69 of this Act after the commencement of subsection (2) above.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: S. 79 wholly in force at 1.4.1995; s. 79 not in force at Royal Assent, see. s. 94(1); s. 79 in force (1.11.1994) for certain purposes by S.I. 1994/2594, art. 4; s. 79 in force (1.4.1995) for all remaining purposes by S.I. 1995/685, art. 3 (with transitional provisions in art. 6)

Notes on Part IV

Textual amendments

F1: Pt. IV (ss. 69-92, except ss. 91(1), 92) repealed (19.6.1997) by 1997 c. 25, ss. 73(3), 74(1), Sch. 6 Pt. I (with saving for s. 80(5) in Sch. 4 para. 11(3)) (with Sch. 4 para. 27)