# The Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) (Amendment) Rules 2000

S.I. 2000/1872 · made 14 July 2000

These Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) Rules 1989 (No. 1597) to take account of the coming into force of section 78 of, and Schedule 11 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) which unify and rename the stipendiary bench.

Made under: Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980

## Introductory text

MAGISTRATES' COURTS
PROCEDURE
Made 14th July 2000
Laid before Parliament 18th July 2000
Coming into force in accordance with rule 1
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under that section, hereby makes the following Rules:

## 1 

These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall come into force on the day on which section 78 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 comes into force.

## 2 

The Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) Rules 1989 shall be amended as follows:—
(a) In rule 2 for the words “and “metropolitan magistrate”” there shall be substituted the words “,“Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate)” and “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)””;
(b) in rule 5(2) and rule 6(1) and (2) for the words “a metropolitan magistrate” there shall be substituted the words “the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) or another District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) designated by him for the purposes of the Act”;
(c) in the Schedule, in Form 1 for the words “metropolitan magistrate” there shall be substituted the words “the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) (or a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) designated for the purposes of the Act by the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate))” and for the words “Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate” there shall be substituted the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”; and
(d) in the Schedule, in Form 2 for the words “Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate” there shal be substituted the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”.

## Signature

Irvine of Lairg, C.
14th July 2000

## Explanatory note

(This Note is not part of the Rules.)
These Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) Rules 1989 (No. 1597) to take account of the coming into force of section 78 of, and Schedule 11 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) which unify and rename the stipendiary bench.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1872 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-extradition-amendment-rules-2000
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