1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Government (Petty Sessional Divisions etc.) (Amendment) Order 1974 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1974.

(2) In this Order, "the principal Order" means the Local Government (Petty Sessional Divisions etc.) Order 1973(1)

2. Article 11 of the principal Order shall be amended by adding at the end the following paragraph:-

"(2) Anything done under the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 or the Gaming Act 1968 by or in relation to the betting licensing committee for an existing petty sessions area, being a thing having effect immediately before 1st April 1974 shall continue to have like effect on and after that date as if the Local Government Act 1972 had not been passed but shall be treated as if it had been done by or in relation to the betting licensing committee for the new petty sessions area in which the premises concerned are situated; and anything done under either of those Acts by or in relation to any other person or body shall have effect accordingly".

3.-(1) Schedule 1 to the principal Order shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order.

(2) Schedule 2 to the principal Order shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order.

(3) Part III of the Schedule to this Order shall have effect for the interpretation of Part II of that Schedule.

Article 3

SCHEDULEAMENDMENTS TO THE PRINCIPAL ORDER

PART ISCHEDULE 1

1. In the entry relating to the non-metropolitan county of Cheshire, for the word "Crewe" where it appears in columns (2) and (3) there shall be substituted the words "Crewe and Nantwich".

2. For the entry relating to the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire there shall be substituted the following entry:-

3. In the entry relating to the non-metropolitan county of Somerset, in the entry in column (3) in respect of the petty sessional division of Wells, for the words "parish of Blagdon" there shall be substituted the words "parishes of Blagdon and Burrington".

4. In the entry relating to the non-metropolitan county of Surrey-

(a)in the entry in column (3) in respect of the petty sessional division of Dorking, the words "except the new parish of Salfords and Sidlow" shall be omitted; and

(b)for the entry in column (3) in respect of the petty sessional division of Reigate there shall be substituted the following entry:-

"The district of Reigate and Banstead except the urban district of Banstead".

5. In the entry relating to the non-metropolitan county of Gwent, in the entry in column (3) in respect of the petty sessional division of Newport, for the words "The Newport division" there shall be substituted the words "In the Newport division, so much as lies in the new county of Gwent".

6. For the entry relating to the metropolitan district of Wigan there shall be substituted the following entry:-

7. In the entry relating to the metropolitan district of Sefton, in the entry in column (3) in respect of the petty sessional division of South Sefton-

(a)for the words "section 16(2)" there shall be substituted the words "section 16"; and

(b)at the end there shall be added the words "In the rural district of West Lancashire, the parishes of Aintree, Maghull, Melling, Netherton and Sefton and so much of the parish of Lydiate as lies in the district of Sefton".

8. In the entry relating to the metropolitan district of Bradford, in the entry in column (3) in respect of the petty sessional division of Keighley, the word "county" shall be omitted.

PART IISCHEDULE 2

1. In the entry relating to the existing petty sessions area of Nantwich (Cheshire) and in the entry relating to the existing petty sessions area of Crewe Borough (Crewe Borough), at the end there shall be added the words "and Nantwich".

2. In the entry relating to the existing petty sessions area of Gloucester County Borough (Gloucester County Borough), at the end there shall be added the word "(City)".

3.-(1) In the entry relating to the existing petty sessions area of Ashford (Kent), at the end there shall be added the words "and Tenterden".

(2) For the entry relating to the existing petty sessions area of Bearsted (Kent) there shall be substituted the following entry:-

• "Maidstone".

4. For the entries relating to the existing petty sessions areas of Amounderness, Clitheroe, Garstang, Leyland, Leyland Hundred, South Lonsdale and Hornby, Walton le Dale and Wigan (Lancashire) there shall be substituted respectively the following entries:-

• "Preston";

• "Ribble Valley";

• "Wyre";

• "South Ribble";

• "Chorley";

• "Lancaster";

• "South Ribble"; and

• "Makerfield".

5. For the entry relating to the existing petty sessions area of Morecambe and Heysham Borough (Morecambe and Heysham Borough) there shall be substituted the following entry:-

• "Lancaster".

6. For the entry relating to the existing petty sessions area of Bedlingtonshire (Northumberland) there shall be substituted the following entry:-

• "Blyth Valley"

7. For the entry relating to the existing petty sessions area of Bowland (Yorkshire (West Riding)) there shall be substituted the following entry:-

• "Ribble Valley".

PART IIIINTERPRETATION

In Part II of this Schedule-

(a)"entry" means entry in column (3) of Schedule 2 to the principal Order; and

(b)any reference to a named area which is in brackets is a reference to the existing commission of the peace area of that name in column (1) of Schedule 2 to the principal Order.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article 3 of and Schedule 1 to the Local Government (Petty Sessional Divisions etc.) Order 1973 provide for the division of non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts established by the Local Government Act 1972 into petty sessional divisions. Article 3(1) of and Part I of the Schedule to, this Order amend Schedule 1 in relation to the counties of Cheshire, Lancashire, Somerset, Surrey and Gwent and the districts of Wigan, Sefton and Bradford. Only the amendments relating to Lancashire, Somerset, Surrey, Wigan and Sefton effect boundary changes; the changes relating to Surrey are consequential upon the Charlwood and Horley Act 1974 (c. 11).

Article 3(2) of, and Part II of the Schedule to, this Order make consequential amendments to Schedule 2 to the Order of 1973 (which specifies new petty sessions areas in respect of existing petty sessions areas for transitional purposes).

Rider to Explanatory Note

Article 11 of the Order of 1973 makes transitional provision in relation to licensing justices; Article 2 of this Order amends that Article by adding a similar provision in relation to betting licensing committees.