Part 1 Property Transfer Schemes

SCHEDULE 2 Abolition of Magistrates' Courts Committees: Transfers

Section 6

Part 1 Property Transfer Schemes

Property transfer schemes: general

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(1)     The Lord Chancellor may make a scheme or schemes for the transfer to him or another Minister of the Crown of any property, rights or liabilities—

(a)     to which magistrates' courts committees are entitled or subject immediately before the appointed day, or

(b)     to which any of the persons specified in sub-paragraph (2) is entitled or subject immediately before the appointed day and which then subsist for the purposes of, or in connection with, or are otherwise attributable to, magistrates' courts.

(2)     The persons are—

(a)     an authority which is a responsible authority for the purposes of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997;

(b)     the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District;

(c)     the council of an outer London borough;

(d)     the Common Council of the City of London;

(e)     a police authority established under section 3 of the Police Act 1996;

(f)     a local probation board;

(g)     any other body which acts under any enactment or instrument for public purposes and not for its own profit.

(3)     Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph

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