
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2000.
(2) In this Order, unless the context requires otherwise, references to a section, Part or Schedule by number alone mean the section, Part or Schedule so numbered in the Access to Justice Act 1999.
2 
The following provisions of Part III shall come into force on 31st July 2000:
(a) sections 37, 38 and 39 (rights of audience and rights to conduct litigation);
(b) section 44 (barristers and solicitors); and
(c) to the extent that it is not already in force, all of Part II of Schedule 15 (repeals and revocations), and, so far as it relates to those repeals, section 106.
3 
The following provisions of Part V shall come into force on 31st August 2000:
(a) section 78 and Schedule 11 (unification and renaming of stipendiary bench);
(b) to the extent that it inserts sections 59B, 59C and 59D(4) and (5) into the Justices of the Peace Act 1997, section 83(2) (Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority); and
(c) Part V(3) of Schedule 15 (repeals and revocations), and, so far as it relates to those repeals, section 106.
4 
Until the coming into force of section 77 the Second Schedule (Constitution of Youth Courts) to the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 shall have effect as if—
(a) the heading “Youth court panels” were deleted, and
(b) for the words “metropolitan stipendiary magistrate” in each place where they occur there were substitued the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”.
Irvine of Lairg, C
Dated 19th July 2000