Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 184

The Petty Sessional Divisions (Northamptonshire) Order 1987

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1987 No. 184

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Petty Sessional Divisions (Northamptonshire) Order 1987

Made	10th February 1987

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1

Whereas the magistrates' courts committee for the county of Northamptonshire has, in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 23 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979^[1], 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 exercise 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 (Northamptonshire) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1987, except that for the purposes of paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to this Order, 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 1987 ordinarily act, in and for that division.

    3.—(1)  The eight divisions of Brackley, Corby, Daventry, Kettering, Mid-Northants, Oundle and Thrapston, Towcester and Wellingborough shall be abolished and—
 (a) from the area comprised in the division of Corby together with the parishes set out in Part I of Schedule 1 to this Order there shall be constituted a new division to be known as the Corby division;
 (b) from the area comprised in the division of Daventry together with the parishes set out in Part II of Schedule 1 to this Order there shall be constituted a new division to be known as the Daventry division;
 (c) from the area comprised in the division of Kettering together with the parishes set out in Part III of Schedule 1 to this Order there shall be constituted a new division to be known as the Kettering division;
 (d) from the area comprised in the division of Towcester together with the parishes set out in Part IV of Schedule 1 to this Order there shall be constituted a new division to be known as the Towcester division;
 (e) from the area comprised in the division of Wellingborough together with the parish of Great Addington there shall be constituted a new division to be known as the Wellingborough division.

    (2)  The divisions specified in column (1) of Schedule 2 to this Order shall, in consequence of the foregoing paragraph of this Article, comprise the areas specified opposite to those divisions in column (2) of the said Schedule.

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

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State Home Office

10th February 1987

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Notes:

[1] 1979 c. 55.

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