Statutory Instruments
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 |
1996 c. 16 (division of England and Wales, except London, into police areas).