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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Order, but is intended to indicate its general purport.)

This Order makes a number of consequential, transitional and supple mentary provisions in connection with certain provisions of the Administration of Justice Act 1964 which relate to the London area.

Article 1 makes provision for the appointment, by the courts of quarter sessions for the inner London area and the Middlesex area, of justices to serve on visiting committees for prisons in the London area. Article 2 adapts references in section 42 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949  section 23 of the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 and section 10 of the Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1952 to a county or borough council to include the Greater London Council. Article 3 and the Schedule regulate the constitution and quorum of the committee of magistrates for inner London.

Articles 4 to 7 make transitional provisions in respect of the term of office of persons who are members of certain bodies. Article 8 makes transitional provisions about the trial of persons who stand committed under section 5 of the Vagrancy Act 1824 to the court of quarter sessions for a county or borough abolished by the London Government Act 1963. 