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The Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Rules 2001

S.I. 2001/613 · Made 27 February 2001

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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 27th February 2001

Laid before Parliament 2nd March 2001

Coming into force 1st April 2001

We, the Crown Court Rule Committee, in exercise of the powers conferred on us by sections 84(1) and (2) and 86 of the Supreme Court Act 1981f1, hereby make the following Rules:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1981 c. 54; section 84(1) is amended by section 10 of, paragraph 1(1) and (4) of Schedule 2 to, the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (c. 12) and section 86 is amended by section 125(3) of, and paragraph 36(2) of Schedule 18 to, the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41).

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

These Rules may be cited as the Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Rules 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

2

In Schedule 1 (Forms) to the Criminal Appeal Rules 1968f1—

(i)

in Slip 3 of Form NG (Forms 2 & 3) for the words “Clerk to the Justices” there shall be substituted the words “Justices' Chief Executive”; and

(ii)

in footnote (l) of Forms 8, 10 and 19 for the words “clerk of” there shall be substituted the words “justices' chief executive for”.

Signature

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Woolf, C.J.

Kay, L.J.

Potter, L.J.

Charles Harris,

L.E. Dickinson

27th February 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Criminal Appeal Rules 1968 to transfer the administrative functions of justices clerks under the Rules to justices' chief executives in line with section 90 (transfer of clerks' functions to chief executives) of, and Schedule 13 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) which implement corresponding transfers in primary legislation.

Subsection (5) of that section provides that for the purposes of that section the administrative functions of justices' clerks are all of their functions apart from those which are legal functions within the meaning given by section 48(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25), as substituted by section 89(1) of the 1999 Act.