Justices Act 1886

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.