Article 6 Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules

In Part 24 (Trial and sentence in a magistrates’ court), in rule 24.17 (Statutory declaration of ignorance of proceedings)—

(a)

after paragraph (6) insert—

“(7)
A court officer may take the statutory declaration to which this rule refers if that officer—

(a)
is a justices’ legal adviser; or

(b)
is nominated for the purpose by such a legal adviser.”; and

(b)

after the second paragraph of the note to the rule insert—

“Section 2 of the Commissioners for Oaths Act 1889^f1 allows rules that regulate the procedure of a court to authorise the taking of a statutory declaration by an officer of that court.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1889 c. 10; section 2 was amended by section 59 of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 11 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4).