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Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 554
MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Local Justice Areas Order 2005
Made
8th March 2005
Laid before Parliament
9th March 2005
Coming into force
1st April 2005
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 8 of the Courts Act 2003(1), makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Local Justice Areas Order 2005 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.
Local Justice Areas
2. The local justice areas into which England and Wales is divided are specified in the Schedule to this Order.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Christopher Leslie
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Constitutional Affairs
8th March 2005
Article 2
SCHEDULE
Local Justice Areas in England & Wales
| Alnwick |
| Ashby-de-la-Zouch |
| Barking and Dagenham |
| Barnet |
| Barnsley District |
| Bath and Wansdyke |
| Batley and Dewsbury |
| Bedford and Mid Bedfordshire |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed |
| Beverley and the Wolds |
| Bexley |
| Birmingham |
| Blackburn, Darwen and Ribble Valley |
| Bolton |
| Boston |
| Bourne and Stamford |
| Bradford |
| Brent |
| Bridlington |
| Bristol |
| Bromley |
| Bromsgrove and Redditch |
| Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale |
| Bury |
| Calderdale |
| Cambridge |
| Camden and Islington |
| Cardiff |
| Carlisle and District |
| Carmarthen |
| Central and South West Staffordshire |
| Central Buckinghamshire |
| Central Devon |
| Central Hertfordshire |
| Central Kent |
| Central Norfolk |
| Ceredigion |
| Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston |
| Chorley |
| City of London |
| City of Salford |
| City of Westminster |
| Conwy |
| Corby |
| Coventry District |
| Croydon |
| Cynon Valley |
| Daventry |
| De Brychieniog |
| De Maldwyn |
| Denbighshire |
| Dinefwr |
| Doncaster |
| Drayton |
| Dudley |
| Ealing |
| East Berkshire |
| East Cambridgeshire |
| East Cornwall |
| East Dorset |
| East Hertfordshire |
| East Kent |
| Eden |
| Elloes |
| Enfield |
| Fenland |
| Flintshire |
| Furness and District |
| Fylde Coast |
| Gainsborough |
| Gateshead District |
| Gloucestershire |
| Goole and Howdenshire |
| Grantham |
| Great Yarmouth |
| Greenwich and Lewisham |
| Grimsby and Cleethorpes |
| Gwynedd |
| Hackney and Tower Hamlets |
| Halton |
| Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea |
| Haringey |
| Harrogate |
| Harrow Gore |
| Hartlepool |
| Havering |
| Herefordshire |
| High Peak |
| Hillingdon |
| Houghton-le-Spring |
| Hounslow |
| Huddersfield |
| Hull and Holderness |
| Huntingdonshire |
| Hyndburn |
| Isle of Wight |
| Keighley |
| Kettering |
| Kidderminster |
| Kingston-upon-Thames |
| Knowsley |
| Lambeth and Southwark |
| Lancaster |
| Langbaurgh East |
| Leeds District |
| Leicester |
| Lincoln District |
| Liverpool |
| Llanelli |
| Loughborough |
| Luton and South Bedfordshire |
| Macclesfield |
| Manchester City |
| Mansfield |
| Market Bosworth |
| Market Harborough and Lutterworth |
| Melton, Belvoir and Rutland |
| Mendip |
| Merthyr Tydfil |
| Merton |
| Mid-North Essex |
| Mid-South Essex |
| Milton Keynes |
| Miskin |
| Neath Port Talbot |
| New Forest |
| Newark and Southwell |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne District |
| Newcastle and Ogmore |
| Newham |
| North East Essex |
| North West Essex |
| North Avon |
| North Devon |
| North Durham |
| North East Derbyshire and Dales |
| North East Hampshire |
| North East Suffolk |
| North Hertfordshire |
| North Kent |
| North Lincolnshire |
| North Norfolk |
| North Pembrokeshire |
| North Sefton District |
| North Somerset |
| North Staffordshire |
| North Surrey |
| North Tyneside District |
| North West Gwent |
| North West Hampshire |
| North West Surrey |
| North West Wiltshire |
| Northallerton and Richmond |
| Northampton |
| Northern Oxfordshire |
| Norwich |
| Nottingham |
| Oldham |
| Ormskirk |
| Oswestry |
| Oxford |
| Peterborough |
| Plymouth District |
| Pontefract |
| Preston |
| Radnorshire and North Brecknock |
| Reading |
| Redbridge |
| Richmond-upon-Thames |
| Rochdale, Middleton and Heywood |
| Rotherham |
| Scarborough |
| Sedgemoor |
| Selby |
| Sheffield |
| Shrewsbury |
| Skegness |
| Skipton |
| Sleaford |
| Solihull |
| South East Essex |
| South West Essex |
| South Cheshire |
| South Devon |
| South Durham |
| South East Gwent |
| South East Hampshire |
| South East Northumberland |
| South East Staffordshire |
| South East Suffolk |
| South East Surrey |
| South East Wiltshire |
| South Hampshire |
| South Lakeland |
| South Norfolk |
| South Pembrokeshire |
| South Ribble |
| South Sefton District |
| South Shropshire |
| South Somerset |
| South Tyneside District |
| South West Surrey |
| South Worcestershire |
| Southampton |
| Southern Derbyshire |
| Southern Oxfordshire |
| St Helens |
| Stockport |
| Stourbridge and Halesowen |
| Sunderland |
| Sussex (Central) |
| Sussex (Eastern) |
| Sussex (Northern) |
| Sussex (Western) |
| Sutton |
| Sutton Coldfield |
| Swansea County |
| Swindon |
| Tameside |
| Taunton Deane and West Somerset |
| Teesside |
| Telford and Bridgnorth |
| Towcester |
| Trafford |
| Tynesdale |
| Vale of Glamorgan |
| Vale Royal |
| Wakefield |
| Walsall and Aldridge |
| Waltham Forest |
| Wandsworth |
| Warley |
| Warrington |
| Warwickshire |
| Wellingborough |
| Welshpool |
| West Allerdale and Keswick |
| West Berkshire |
| West Bromwich |
| West Cornwall |
| West Dorset |
| West Hertfordshire |
| West Norfolk |
| West Suffolk |
| Whitehaven |
| Wigan and Leigh |
| Wirral |
| Wolds |
| Wolverhampton |
| Worksop and Retford |
| Wrexham Maelor |
| Wycombe and Beaconsfield |
| Ynys Mòn/Anglesey |
| York |
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order specifies the local justice areas into which England and Wales is divided under section 8 of the Courts Act 2003. The Act requires the first Order under section 8 to specify as local justice areas the areas which were petty sessions areas before 1st April 2005.
Maps showing the local justice areas are available for inspection at any reasonable time at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, Selborne House, 54-60 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QW.
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