Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Criminal Procedure Rules 2014, S.I. 2014/1610, as follows:

Rule	Amendment

Part 37	A new rule 37.9 (Single justice procedure: special rules) is inserted in order to supplement sections 46 to 50 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (trial by single justice on the papers). Rule 37.8 (Written guilty plea: special rules), which supplements section 12 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, is amended so as to make the expression of the new and existing rules correspond. Rules 37.1, 37.2 and 37.3 are amended, rules 37.9 to 37.16 are renumbered as rules 37.10 to 37.17 and amended, and rule 37.17 is renumbered as rule 37.18, in consequence of the 2015 Act and the other rule changes.

Part 3	Rule 3.9 is amended in consequence.

Part 4	Rule 4.7 is amended in consequence.

Part 7	Rules 7.1, 7.2 and 7.4 are amended in consequence.

Part 9	Rules 9.9, 9.11 and 9.13 are amended in consequence.

Part 42	Rules 42.1 and 42.4 are amended in consequence.

These Rules come into force on 6th April 2015.