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Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 1024

The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Wigan) Amalgamation Order 1996

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1996 No. 1024

MAGISTRATES' COURTS

The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Wigan) Amalgamation Order 1996

Made29th March 1996
Laid before Parliament2nd April 1996
Coming into force
 for the purpose of articles 2 and 41st April 1997
 for all other purposes1st May 1996

    Whereas the magistrates' courts committees for the areas of Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Wigan have submitted proposals to the Lord Chancellor under section 69(1) of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994[1] for the amalgamation of the magistrates' courts committees for those areas:
    And whereas the provisions of section 69(2) of that Act have been complied with:
    Now, therefore, the Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 69(3) and (8) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:
        1.    This Order may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts Committees (Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Wigan) Amalgamation Order 1996 and shall come into force for the purposes of articles 2 and 4 on 1st April 1997 and for all other purposes on 1st May 1996.
        2.    The magistrates' courts committees for the five areas of Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Wigan shall be abolished.
        3.    There shall be constituted as a body corporate a new magistrates' courts committee which shall be known as the North and West Greater Manchester magistrates' courts committee.
        4.    The area of the North and West Greater Manchester magistrates' courts committee shall consist of the five metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Wigan.
        5.    The transitional and consequential provisions set out in the Schedule to this Order shall have effect in connection with the provisions of articles 2 and 3 of this Order.



Mackay of Clashfern,
C.

29th March 1996




Notes:

[1] 1994 c. 29.

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