Article 8 Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015

In Part 24 (Trial and sentence in a magistrates’ court), in the note to rule 24.1 (When this Part applies)—

(a)

in the fourth paragraph, for “the Justices of the Peace (Size and Chairmanship of Bench) Rules 2005^f1” substitute “the Justices of the Peace Rules 2016^f2”; and

(b)

for the sixth paragraph substitute—

“Under section 45 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933^f3 and under the Justices of the Peace Rules 2016, where the court is a youth court comprising justices each member must be authorised to sit as a member of that youth court.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2005/553.
f2: S.I. 2016/709.
f3: 1933 c. 12; section 45 was substituted by section 50 of the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39) and amended by section 15 of, and paragraph 20 of Schedule 4 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4).