sec.22BMagistrates Courts districts

### sec.22B Magistrates Courts districts The Governor in Council may make regulations with respect to— the appointment of districts, and divisions of districts, for the purposes of Magistrates Courts; and the names of districts and divisions; and the appointment of places for holding Magistrates Courts within districts and divisions; and the transfer of proceedings, matters, documents, records and accounts from one Magistrates Court to another. Despite the appointment under subsection (1) (c) of a particular place within a district or division as a place for holding a Magistrates Court— the Magistrates Court, if constituted by a magistrate, may sit at another place in the district or division; and if it sits at another place in the district or division, the place is taken to have also been appointed under subsection (1) (c) . Two or more Magistrates Courts may be held at the same time at the same place. Provision made by a proclamation under section 22 (as in force immediately before the commencement of this section) continues to have effect, after the commencement, as if it had been made by a regulation. Provision made by an order in council under the Decentralisation of Magistrates Courts Act 1965 , section 5 (as in force immediately before the commencement of this section) continues to have effect, after the commencement, as if it had been made by a regulation under this Act. s 22B ins 1992 No. 40 s 9 amd 1994 No. 24 s 3 (1) sch ; 1997 No. 82 s 53 (sec.22B-ssec.1) The Governor in Council may make regulations with respect to— the appointment of districts, and divisions of districts, for the purposes of Magistrates Courts; and the names of districts and divisions; and the appointment of places for holding Magistrates Courts within districts and divisions; and the transfer of proceedings, matters, documents, records and accounts from one Magistrates Court to another. (sec.22B-ssec.1A) Despite the appointment under subsection (1) (c) of a particular place within a district or division as a place for holding a Magistrates Court— the Magistrates Court, if constituted by a magistrate, may sit at another place in the district or division; and if it sits at another place in the district or division, the place is taken to have also been appointed under subsection (1) (c) . (sec.22B-ssec.2) Two or more Magistrates Courts may be held at the same time at the same place. (sec.22B-ssec.3) Provision made by a proclamation under section 22 (as in force immediately before the commencement of this section) continues to have effect, after the commencement, as if it had been made by a regulation. (sec.22B-ssec.4) Provision made by an order in council under the Decentralisation of Magistrates Courts Act 1965 , section 5 (as in force immediately before the commencement of this section) continues to have effect, after the commencement, as if it had been made by a regulation under this Act. - (a) the appointment of districts, and divisions of districts, for the purposes of Magistrates Courts; and - (b) the names of districts and divisions; and - (c) the appointment of places for holding Magistrates Courts within districts and divisions; and - (d) the transfer of proceedings, matters, documents, records and accounts from one Magistrates Court to another. - (a) the Magistrates Court, if constituted by a magistrate, may sit at another place in the district or division; and - (b) if it sits at another place in the district or division, the place is taken to have also been appointed under subsection (1) (c) .