Introductory text

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS

PROCEDURE

Made 10th March 1997

Laid before Parliament 11th March 1997

Coming into force 1st April 1997

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980^f1, and after consultation with the Rule Committee under the said section 144, hereby makes the following Rules:

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Footnotes

f1: 1980 c. 43; as extended by section 145 of that Act (the 1980 Act is amended by section 47 of, and Part I of Schedule 1 to, the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, and by section 65(3) of, and Schedule 5 to, the 1996 Act.