
1 
This Order may be cited as the Commission Areas (Dyfed Powys) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st January 2001.
2 
In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires:—
 “area” means a commission area including any part of the Dyfed Powys magistrates' courts committee area;
 “abolished area” means one of the areas abolished by article 3 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 II of the Schedule to the Justices of the Peace (Commission Areas) Order 1999:—
(a) the entry for Powys shall be omitted;
(b) for the entry for Dyfed there shall be substituted the following new entry:

Name of commission area Extent of commission area
Dyfed Powys The area of Dyfed Powys MCC
4 
Every person who immediately before 1st January 2001 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
14th November 2000