The Local Justice Areas Order 2005

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2005/554
Year2005

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 20031, makes the following Order:

S-1 Citation and commencement

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.

S-2 Local Justice Areas

Local Justice Areas

2. The local justice areas into which England and Wales is divided are specified in the Schedule to this Order.

Christopher Leslie

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Constitutional Affairs

8th March 2005

SCHEDULE

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

(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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