Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 168 (C.9)
MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2001
Made
24th January 2001
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 108(1) of and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 14 to the Access to Justice Act 1999( 1 ), makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2001 and shall come into force on the day following that on which it is made.
Commencement of Access to Justice Act 1999
2. The following provisions of the Access to Justice Act 1999 shall come into force on 19th February 2001—
(a) sections 96 and 97;
(b) in Part V of Schedule 15 (repeals), all entries in the table headed “(8) Warrants” to the extent that they are not already in force;
(c) section 106, so far as it relates to those entries.
Transitional provisions
3. —(1) This article applies where—
(a) a warrant of arrest, commitment, detention or distress is issued by a justice of the peace at any time before 8th January 2001,
(b) the warrant has not been executed before 19th February 2001, and
(c) if the warrant had been issued on 8th January 2001, section 125A(1) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980( 2 ) would have applied to it.
(2) Where this article applies, section 125D of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 shall apply as if the warrant had been issued on 8th January 2001.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Jane Kennedy
Parliamentary Secretary,
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Dated 24th January 2001
1980 c. 43 . Section 125A was inserted by section 92 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 with effect from 8th January 2001, and section 125D is inserted by section 96 of the same Act, which is brought into force by this Order.