Article 4 Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2005I1

England and Wales Not yet in force

In rule 2.2(1) (Definitions)—

(a)

at the appropriate place, insert—

(i)

““business day” means any day except Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday or a bank holiday;”;

(ii)

““live link” means an arrangement by which a person can see and hear, and be seen and heard by, the court when that person is not in court;”; and

(iii)

““public interest ruling” means a ruling about whether it is in the public interest to disclose prosecution material under sections 3(6), 7A(8) or 8(5) of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996^f1.”;

(b)

at the end of the definition of “court officer”, omit “and”; and

(c)

at the end of the definition of “Practice Direction”, for “.”, substitute “; and”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Rule 4 in force at 1.10.2007, see rule 1

Footnotes

f1: 1996 c. 25; section 7A was inserted by section 37 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44).