Section 216: Adaptation of law relating to old counties.

Local Government Act 1972 · 1972 c.70

Part X: Judicial and Related Matters

216(1)

For the purposes of commissions of the peace and the law relating to justices of the peace, magistrates' courts, the custos rotulorum, lieutenants, sheriffs and matters connected with any of those matters, new counties shall, without prejudice to section 179(1) above, be substituted for counties of any other description.

216(2)

For the purposes of this section and sections . . . , 218 and 219 below the Isles of Scilly shall be deemed to form part of the county of Cornwall.

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