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The Public Bodies (Abolition of Crown Court Rule Committee and Magistrates’ Courts Rule Committee) Order 2012

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Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c.43)

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1.—(1) Section 144(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (rule committee and rules of procedure) is amended as follows.

(2) In the side-note, the words “Rule committee and” are repealed.

(3) Subsection (A1) is repealed.

(4) In subsection (1), the words “on the advice of or after consultation with the rule committee, and” are repealed.

(5) In subsection (1A), the words “and the rules committee” are repealed.

(6) Subsections (2), (3) and (3A) are repealed.

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Relevant amendments to section 144 were made by section 15(1) of and paragraphs 99 and 102 of Part I of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (inserting subsections (A1), (1A) and (4A) and amending subsections (1) and (2)); and by section 208(1) of and paragraphs 42 and 43(b) of Schedule 21 to the Legal Services Act 2007 (inserting subsection (3A)).

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