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Justices of the Peace Act 1949

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46Citation, repeal and extent

(1)This Act may be cited as the Justices of the Peace Act, 1949.

(2)The enactments mentioned in the Seventh Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule:

Provided that the repeal by this subsection of any enactment relating to petty sessional divisions shall not affect the division of a county into petty sessional divisions as it exists at the coming into force of the repeal.

(3)This Act extends to England and Wales only except that the following provisions shall extend to Scotland, videlicet:—

(a)sections one, three to six, eight, nine, fourteen, forty, forty-three to forty-five, and subsection (1) of this section;

(b)the First Schedule ;

(c)subsection (2) of this section and Part I of the Seventh Schedule, so far as relating to the Justices of the Peace Act, 1906, and the Justices (Supplemental List) Act, 1941 ; and

(d)any other provision so far as it affects section thirty-eight of the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937 (which relates to reciprocal arrangements between England and Scotland).

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