Petty Sessional Divisions (West Sussex) Order 1989

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1989/172
Year1989

1989No. 172

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (ENGLAND AND WALES)

The Petty Sessional Divisions (West Sussex) Order 1989

10thFebruary1989

Whereas the magistrates' courts committee for the county of West Sussex has, in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 23 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979 ( a) , submitted to the Secretary of State a draft order making provision about the division of part of the said county into petty sessional divisions:

And whereas by subsections (3)(a) and (5) of the said section it is provided that the Secretary of State may by statutory instrument make the Order either in the terms of the said draft or with such modifications as he thinks fit and that the said Order may contain transitional and other consequential provisions:

And whereas the provisions of subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section 24 of the Act of 1979 have been complied with:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by subsections (3) and (5) of the said section 23, I hereby make the following Order:

1. This Order may be cited as the Petty Sessional Divisions (West Sussex) Order 1989, and shall come into force on the 1st April 1989 except that for the purposes of paragraph 2of the Schedule thereto this Order shall come into force forthwith.

2. In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires, the expression "division" means petty sessional division and any reference to a justice for a division shall be construed as a reference to a justice of the peace who ordinarily acts, or, as the case may be, will on or after 1st April 1989 ordinarily act in and for that division.

3. The divisions of Chichester, Midhurst and Petworth shall be combined to form a new division which shall be known as the Chichester and District Division.

4. The transitional and other consequential provisions set out in the Schedule to this Order shall have effect in connection with the provisions of article 3 of this order.

Home Office

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty's Principal

10th February 1989

Secretaries of State

(a) 1979 c.55; sections 23 and 24 were amended by section 12 of the Local Government Act 1985 (c.51).

SCHEDULE

Article 4

TRANSITIONAL AND OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS

1.In this Schedule:

"existing division" means a division combined by article 3 of this Order;

"new division" means the division constituted by article 3 of this Order;

"community service order" means an order made under section 14 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 ( a) ;

"probation order" means a probation order made, or having effect as if made, under section 2 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973;

"supervision order" means any of the following orders, that is to say-

(a) a supervision order within the meaning of section 11 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 ( b) ;(b) an order under section 2(1)(f) of the Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates' Courts) Act 1960 ( c) or section 9 of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 ( d) ;(c) an order under section 2(2) of the...

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