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Justices of the Peace Act 1949

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45Commencement

(1)This Act shall come into force on such day as His Majesty may by Order in Council appoint.

(2)Except in so far as this Act provides to the contrary, different days may be appointed under this section for the purpose of different provisions of this Act and for different purposes of the same provision.

(3)Any Order in Council under this section may make such transitional provision as appears to His Majesty to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions thereby brought into force, including such adaptations of those provisions or of any provisions of this Act then in force as appear to His Majesty necessary or expedient in consequence of the partial operation of this Act (whether before or after the day appointed by the Order).

(4)Provision shall be made by Order in Council under this section for securing that so far as practicable questions as to the salaries under section nineteen of this Act of justices' clerks holding office immediately before the date when that section comes into force, and other questions arising under that section on its coming into force, shall be determined before it comes into force and, so far as it is not practicable for any such clerk's salary to be determined as aforesaid, for securing either that the subsequent determination thereof shall have effect from the coming into force of section nineteen of this Act or that pending the determination thereof subsections (2) to (6) of section nineteen and subsection (8) of section twenty-one of this Act shall apply to him only to such extent and subject to such modifications as may be determined by or in accordance with the Order.

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