Explanatory note

These Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981 so as to insert a new rule 104A in connection with section 73 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988. Rule 104A contains procedural provisions relating to the statements and other documents tendered to the court under section 73, which facilitates the determination by the court whether a person has benefited from an offence to which Part VI of the Act of 1988 applies and the assessment by that court of the value of the defendant’s benefit.

The Rules, by virtue of rule 1, come into force on 3rd April 1989, the date on which Part VI of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 comes into force (S.I. 1989/264).