Rule 1 Citation, commencement and interpretationI1

England and Wales

(1)

These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates’ Courts (Injunctions: Gang-related Violence) Rules 2015.

(2)

These Rules come into force on the day on which, and immediately after, section 18 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013^f1 comes into force.

(3)

In these Rules—

(a)

“the 2009 Act” means the Policing and Crime Act 2009;

(b)

a reference to a section or Schedule by number alone means the section or Schedule so numbered in the 2009 Act;

(c)

“applicant” means the person applying or who applied for the injunction, and “respondent” means the person against whom the injunction is or was applied for;

(d)

“defaulter” and “injunction applicant” have the meaning given in paragraph 1(9) of Schedule 5A to the 2009 Act;

(e)

“injunction” means an injunction under section 34 of the 2009 Act.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Rule 1 in force at 1.6.2015 in accordance with rule 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: 2013 c. 22.