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2004 No. 1192

SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Courts Boards Areas Order 2004

  Made 21st April 2004 
  Coming into force 1st June 2004 

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 4(2) of the Courts Act 2003[1], having regard to the desirability of specifying areas which are the same as the police areas listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996[2] and the area consisting of the Metropolitan Police District and the City of London police area, hereby makes the following Order a draft of which has, in accordance with section 108(2) and (3) of the Courts Act 2003, been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Court Boards Areas Order 2004 and shall come into force on 1st June 2004.

Courts Boards areas
     2. Each of the areas respectively named in column 1, and specified in column 2 of Table 1 of the Schedule to this Order, is a courts board area in England.

     3. Each of the areas respectively named in column 1, and specified in column 2 of Table 2 of the Schedule to this Order, is a courts board area in Wales.



Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor


Christopher Leslie
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department of Constitutional Affairs

Dated 21st April 2004



SCHEDULE

Table 1
England     
Avon and Somerset The county of Somerset and the non-metropolitan districts of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North West Somerset and South Gloucestershire
Bedfordshire The county of Bedfordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Luton
Cambridgeshire The county of Cambridgeshire
Cheshire The county of Cheshire
Cleveland The non-metropolitan districts of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees
Cumbria The county of Cumbria
Derbyshire The county of Derbyshire and the non-metropolitan district of Derby
Devon and Cornwall The counties of Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
Dorset The county of Dorset and the non-metropolitan districts of Bournemouth and Poole
Durham The county of Durham and the non-metropolitan district of Darlington
Essex The county of Essex
Gloucestershire The county of Gloucestershire
Greater Manchester The metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan
Hampshire The counties of Hampshire and Isle of Wight and the non-metropolitan districts of Portsmouth and Southampton
Hertfordshire The county of Hertfordshire
Humberside The non-metropolitan districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire
Kent The county of Kent
Lancashire The county of Lancashire
Leicestershire The county of Leicestershire and the non-metropolitan districts of Leicester and Rutland
Lincolnshire The county of Lincolnshire
London Greater London
Merseyside The metropolitan districts of Knowsley, Liverpool, St. Helens, Sefton and Wirral
Norfolk The county of Norfolk
Northamptonshire The county of Northamptonshire
Northumbria The county of Northumberland and the metropolitan districts of Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland
North Yorkshire The county of North Yorkshire and the non-metropolitan district of York
Nottinghamshire The county of Nottinghamshire
South Yorkshire The metropolitan districts of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Staffordshire The county of Staffordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Stoke-on-Trent
Suffolk The county of Suffolk
Surrey The county of Surrey
Sussex The counties of East Sussex and West Sussex and the non-metropolitan district of Brighton and Hove
Thames Valley The counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire and the non-metropolitan district of Milton Keynes
Warwickshire The county of Warwickshire
West Mercia The counties of Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire
West Midlands The metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton
West Yorkshire The metropolitan districts of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield
Wiltshire The county of Wiltshire and the non-metropolitan district of Thamesdown
Table 2     
Wales     
Dyfed Powys The counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys
Gwent The county of Monmouthshire and the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen
North Wales The counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire and the county boroughs of Aberconwy and Colwyn and Wrexham
South Wales The counties of Cardiff and Swansea and the county boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath and Port Talbot, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff and the Vale of Glamorgan


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This is the first Order made under section 4 of the Courts Act 2003. It names and specifies courts boards areas in England and Wales.

Notes:

 [1] 2003 c. 39.back

[2] 1996 c. 16 (division of England and Wales, except London, into police areas).back


ISBN 0 11 049229 3


  © Crown copyright 2004

Prepared 30 April 2004

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