Section 86A Process for making rules of court under section 84F1

England and Wales

(1)

Crown Court rules must be F2submitted to the Lord Chancellor after being made by the Lord Chief Justice

(2)

The Lord Chancellor may allow or disallow rules so made.

(3)

If the Lord Chancellor disallows rules, he must give the F3Lord Chief Justice written reasons for doing so.

(4)

Rules so made and allowed by the Lord Chancellor—

(a)

come into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor directs, and

(b)

are to be contained in a statutory instrument to which the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 applies as if the instrument contained rules made by a Minister of the Crown.

(5)

A statutory instrument containing Crown Court rules is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(6)

In this section and section 86B “Crown Court rules” means rules of court made under section 84.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Ss. 86A, 86B inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15, 148, Sch. 4 para. 138; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. para. 11(p)
F2: Words in s. 86A(1) substituted (18.9.2012) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Crown Court Rule Committee and Magistrates' Courts Rule Committee) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2398), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 4(2)
F3: Words in s. 86A(3) substituted (18.9.2012) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Crown Court Rule Committee and Magistrates' Courts Rule Committee) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2398), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 4(3)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act: "The Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54) may be cited as the Senior Courts Act 1981" (1.10.2009) by virtue of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 1(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)
F2: Act: words substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 26(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)