Introductory text

MAGISTRATES' COURTS

PROCEDURE

Made 27 August 1998

Laid before Parliament 3rd September 1998

Coming into force 30th September 1998

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980^f1, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 144 and with justices of the peace and justices' clerks for the areas specified in rule 3(4) below, hereby makes the following Rules:

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1980 c. 43; section 144 is extended by sections 145 and 146 of that Act, by section 45 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) and by section 49 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37).