Article 3 Amendment to the principal rules

Rule 2 of the principal rules (interpretation) shall be amended as follows: –

(1)

After the definition of “counsel” there shall be inserted the following definition –

““court-ordered youth conference” has the meaning given by Article 33A(5) of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998^f1;”; and

(2)

After the definition of “disbursements” there shall be inserted the following definition –

““diversionary youth conferences” has the meaning given by Article 10A(2) of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998;”.

Annotations

f1: S.I. 1998/1504 (N.I. 9); Article 33A was inserted by section 59 of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (c. 26) and Article 10A was inserted by section 58 of that Act