Part 2: Courts, tribunals and coroners Chapter 5: Other provisions about courts Section 45: Abolition of local justice areas
Section 43 provides for the abolition of local justice areas (LJAs) (see section 43(1)), which will have a number of effects.
	Removing the requirement that magistrates’ courts in England and Wales must be divided into separate local justice areas will require a great number of consequential amendments to existing legislation to remove and replace references to local justice areas, as well as deal with fines and community orders and additionally to make provision for the appointment deployment, training, development, and appraisal of magistrates who are currently appointed to local justice areas.
	Section 43(3) provides the Lord Chancellor with a power to make consequential or supplementary provisions, including provision amending, repealing or revoking provisions made by or under other Acts of Parliament whenever passed or made (see subsection ()). These regulations are to be made by statutory instrument subject to the affirmative procedure in the case of regulations amending Acts, or negative procedure otherwise (subsections (5) and (6)).