Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Rules may be cited as the Crown Court (Amendment) Rules 2017.

(2)

Rule 6 of these Rules comes into force on 16th April 2018 so far as it relates to Rule 8(fa) of the Crown Court Rules 1982^f1.

(3)

Rule 7(b) of these Rules comes into force on 16th April 2018 so far as it relates to section 303S of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002^f2.

(4)

Otherwise, these Rules come into force on 31st January 2018.

(5)

In these Rules, a reference to a rule by number alone means the rule so numbered in the Crown Court Rules 1982.

Annotations

f1: S.I.1982/1109. Rule 8 was amended by section 70 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), and by S.I. 1988/952, S.I. 1988/1322, S.I. 2001/193, S.I. 2001/614, S.I. 2001/4012, S.I. 2002/2997, and S.I. 2005/617. Part III of Schedule 3 was amended by S.I. 1988/1322, S.I. 2001/193, S.I. 2001/4012, S.I. 2002/2977, S.I. 2004/1047 and S.I. 2009/3361.
f2: 2002 c.29. Chapters 3A and 3B of Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act were inserted by sections 15 and 16 of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (c. 22).