Canton of court (Belgium)
A court Canton , French judiciaire Canton , dutch CANTON Gerechtelijk set in Belgium , a number of municipalities to Sprengel of a peace court together. The legal basis for the classification is Article 1 of the Appendix to the Judicial Code of 1967.
The size of the court canton can differ from the size of the electoral canton . In 2017 the number of court cantons was reduced from 187 to 162; they are distributed across the Brussels-Capital Region and the ten provinces as follows :
area | Cantons of court |
Electoral cantons |
---|---|---|
BRU | 19th | 8th |
VBR | 7 + 7 | 15th |
VLI | 11 | 15th |
VAN | 23 | 17th |
VOV | 21st | 31 |
VWV | 17th | 25th |
WBR | 5 | 5 |
WHT | 20th | 34 |
WNA | 8th | 14th |
WLX | 5 | 20th |
WLG | 17 + 2 | 26th |
total | 162 | 210 |
Remarks
- ↑ The 7 western court cantons in the Halle-Vilvoorde district of the Flemish Brabant province are not assigned to the Court of First Instance in Leuven , but rather in Brussels.
- ↑ The two eastern court cantons in the province of Liège ( German-speaking Community ) are not assigned to the court of first instance in Liège , but rather in Eupen .