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The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 14) Order 2015

S.I. 2015/1837 · Made 27 October 2015

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County Court, England And Wales

Senior Courts Of England And Wales

Supreme Court Of The United Kingdom

Made 27th October 2015

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 61(2) of the Crime and Courts Act 2013f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2013 c.22, there are amendments to section 61 but none relevant to this Order.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and interpretation
  2. 2Provisions coming into force on 3rd November 2015
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and interpretation

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 14) Order 2015.

(2)

In this Order, “the Act” means the Crime and Courts Act 2013.

2Provisions coming into force on 3rd November 2015

The following provisions of the Act come into force on 3rd November 2015—

(a)

section 41 (meaning of “relevant publisher”) and Schedule 15 (exclusions from definition of “relevant publisher”), for the purposes of sections 34 to 39 of the Act; and

(b)

section 42 (other interpretative provisions), for the purposes of sections 34 to 39 and 41 of the Act.

Signature

Edward Faulks

Minister of State

Ministry of Justice

27th October 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is the fourteenth commencement order made under the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22) (“the Act”). It brings into force on 3rd November 2015 the following provisions, which apply only to England and Wales.

Sections 41 and 42 and Schedule 15 are brought into force to coincide with the coming into force of sections 34 to 39 of the Act. By virtue of section 61(7) of the Act sections 34 to 39 come into force at the end of the period of one year beginning with the day on which a body is established by Royal Charter with the purpose of carrying on activities relating to the recognition of independent regulators of relevant publishers. The Press Recognition Panel was duly established on 3rd November 2014 by the Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the Press granted on 30th October 2013.

Section 41 sets out the definition of ‘relevant publisher’ to whom the new system of exemplary damages (provided for in sections 34 to 39) will apply. Schedule 15 provides exclusions from that definition. Section 42 contains other interpretative provisions.