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The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 25) Order 2010

S.I. 2010/3005 · Made 16 December 2010

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Criminal Law, England And Wales

Made 16th December 2010

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 336(3) and (4) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003f1:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2003 c. 44.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and interpretation
  2. 2Commencement
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and interpretation

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 25) Order 2010.

(2)

In this Order “the 2003 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 2003.

2Commencement

Section 29(1) to (3), (5) and (6) (new method of instituting proceedings) and section 30 (further provision about the new method) of the 2003 Act come into force on 1st January 2011 but only for the purposes of—

(a)

criminal proceedings instituted by a police force or a person authorised by a police force to institute proceedings in a magistrates’ court sitting in Gloucestershire or Essex; and

(b)

criminal proceedings instituted by a public prosecutor within the meaning of section 29(5)(e) of the 2003 Act (a Secretary of State or a person authorised by one) who is a person authorised to do so on behalf of the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency.

Signature

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State

J Djanogly

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Justice

16th December 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 1st January 2011 the provisions in sections 29 and 30 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (“the 2003 Act”) so as to allow—

  • a police force, or a person authorised by a police force to institute criminal proceedings, to institute criminal proceedings by issuing a written charge and requisition in a magistrates’ court sitting in Gloucestershire and Essex.

  • the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (an executive agency of the Department of Transport) to institute criminal proceedings by issuing a written charge and requisition.

The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement Order No. 16) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1999). the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement Order No. 21) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1424) and Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement Order No. 23) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2879) commenced the same provisions in the 2003 Act in relation to other specified proceedings.