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Explanatory note

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These Rules make amendments to the Crown Rules 1982 consequential on the removal, by section 79 of the Access to Justice Act 1999, of the requirement in section 74(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981, that the Crown Court should include justices of the peace when hearing a committal for sentence.