Rule 3 Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2012

In Part 2 (Understanding and applying the Rules)—

(a)

in rule 2.4 (Representatives)—

(i)

in paragraph (1)(b), for ‘where that party is a corporation’ substitute ‘where that corporation is a defendant’, and

(ii)

in paragraph (2), for ‘Anyone with a prosecutor’s authority to do so may, on that prosecutor’s behalf’ substitute ‘A member, officer or employee of a prosecutor may, on the prosecutor’s behalf’; and

(b)

in the note to rule 2.4, after the second paragraph insert—

“Sections 3 and 6 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985^f1 make provision about the institution of prosecutions.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1985 c. 23; section 3 was amended by section 15 of, and paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 to, the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (c. 38), paragraph 39 of Schedule 7 to the Police Act 1996 (c. 16), section 134 of, and paragraph 48 of Schedule 9 to, the Police Act 1997 (c. 50), section 164 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33), paragraph 10 of Schedule 7 to the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30), sections 86 and 92 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 (c. 38), section 190 of the Extradition Act 2003 (c. 41), section 7 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 (c. 19), section 40 of, and paragraph 41 of Schedule 9 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), sections 59, 140 and 174 of, and paragraph 47 of Schedule 4 and Part 2 of Schedule 17 to, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), sections 7, 8 and 52 of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 3 to, the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (c. 38), section 74 of, and paragraph 149 of Schedule 8 to, the Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27) and paragraph 171 of Schedule 16 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13).