(1)    This Order may be cited as the Local Justice Areas (No 2) Order 2006.

(2)    For the purposes of Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order, this Order shall come into force on 22nd September 2006.

(3)    For all other purposes this Order shall come into force on 1st January 2007.

(4)    This Order extends to England and Wales.

In this Order:—

“existing area” means a local justice area existing before 1st January 2006 and altered by this Order;

“new area” means a local justice area constituted by this Order;

“relevant new area” (in relation to anything done before 1st January 2007 by, to, before or in relation to, justices for an existing area or their clerk), means the new area specified in paragraph 3(1) of this Order and, where there is more than one such new area, it means the new area in respect of which that thing should have been done if the proceedings had begun on or after that date;

any reference to a justice for an area shall be construed as a reference to a justice of the peace who ordinarily acts, or, as the case may be, will, on and after 1st January 2007, ordinarily act, in and for that area.

(1)    The existing areas of North West Gwent and South East Gwent are combined to become a new area named Gwent.

(2)    Accordingly the Schedule to the Local Justice Areas Order 2005 is amended as follows—

(a)    delete “North West Gwent” and “South East Gwent”,

(b)    after “Grimsby and Cleethorpes” insert “Gwent”,

The consequential and transitional provisions set out in the Schedule to this Order shall have effect.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Harriet Harman

Minister of State

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Date 23rd August 2006

This Order provides for the reorganisation of the local justice areas in Gwent. A new local justice area named Gwent replaces the existing local justice areas of North West Gwent and South East Gwent. The Order is brought into force on 22nd September for the purpose of enabling appointments to be made on the basis of the combined areas and on 1st January 2007 for the substantive creation of the combined area.