Whereas the magistrates' courts committee for the county of Essex has, in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 24A of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979(1), submitted to the Secretary of State a draft order altering the name of the petty sessional division of Billericay, being a petty sessions area for which they are the committee:

And whereas by subsection (2) of the said section it is provided that the Secretary of State may by statutory instrument make the Order either in the terms of the said draft or with such modifications as he thinks fit;

And whereas the provisions of subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section 24B of the Act of 1979 have been complied with;