Explanatory note

These Rules insert a new rule into the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981 and a new form into the Magistrates' Courts (Forms) Rules 1981. The new rule and form are intended to deal with the situation where a magistrates' court makes an order under section 67 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 requiring a bank or building society to pay money held in an account maintained with the bank or building society to a justices' chief executive in satisfaction of a confiscation order.