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Administration of Justice Act 1973 (c.15)

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Administration of Justice Act 1973

1973 CHAPTER 15

An Act to amend the law relating to justices of the peace and to make further provision with respect to the administration of justice and matters connected therewith.

[18th April 1973]

Part I Justices of the Peace

1

(1)—(8). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(9)There shall cease to have effect—

(a)section 1 of the M1Metropolitan Police Act 1829 in so far as ir regulates the appointment or removal of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis ; and

(b)so much of section 2 of the M2Metropolitan Police Act 1856 as provides for the Assistant Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis to be justices of the peasce ;

and the Commissioner of Police shall be appointed in like manner as Assistant Commissioners are under the said section 2 to be appointed.

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 1(1)—(8) repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55, SIF 82), Sch. 3

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1

“The said section 2” means Metropolitan Police Act 1856 (c. 2, SIF 95), s. 2

C2The text of ss. 7(2), 14(1), 18(1) and Sch. 2 Pt. II and part of s. 1(9) is in the form in which it was originall enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified does not reflect any amendments or repeals made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M11829 c. 44

M21856 c. 2.

2

(1)—(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(5)—(7). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 2(1)—(3) repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55, SIF 82), Sch. 3

F2S. 2(4) repealed by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), Sch. 4

F3S. 2(5)—(7) repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55, SIF 82), Sch. 3

3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 3 repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55, SIF 82), Sch. 3

4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 4 repealed by Solicitors Act 1974 (c. 47, SIF 76:1), Sch. 4

[ F15 Consequential

Paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect; and the enactments specified in paragraph 10 of that Schedule shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that paragraph.]

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 5 substituted (19.6.1997) by virtue of 1997 c. 25, ss. 73(2), 74(1), Sch. 5 para. 13(2) (with Sch. 4 para. 27)