
1 
This Order may be cited as the Commission Areas (Thames Valley) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st July 2000.
2 
In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires:—
 “area” means a commission area including any part of the Thames Valley committee area;
 “abolished area” means an area abolished by article 3(a) below;
 “new area” means the area constituted by article 3(b) below;
 any reference to a justice for an area shall be construed as a reference to a person who holds the commission of the peace for that area.
3 
In Part I of the Schedule to the Justices of the Peace (Commission Areas) Order 1999:—
(a) the entries for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire shall be omitted;
(b) after the entry for Surrey there shall be inserted the following new entry:

Name of commission area Extent of commission area
Thames Valley The area of Thames Valley MCC
4 
Every person who immediately before 1st July 2000 holds office as a justice of the peace for an abolished area shall on and after that date hold office as a justice of the peace for the new area, and the commissions of the peace for the abolished areas shall accordingly have effect as commissions of the peace for the new area until such time as a commission of the peace for that area is granted.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Jane Kennedy
Parliamentary Secretary,
Lord Chancellor’s Department
22nd May 2000