Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022

Weights and Measures Act 1985 U.K.

9 In section 83 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 (prosecution of offences)—

(a) in subsection (4), after “person” insert “—

(a) if the proceedings are to be instituted in England and Wales, in accordance with Criminal Procedure Rules; or

(b) if the proceedings are to be instituted in Scotland,”;

(b) after that subsection insert—

“(4A) For the purposes of subsection (4)(a)—

(a) Criminal Procedure Rules (as they have effect from time to time) apply to the notice as if it were a document to be served in criminal proceedings before a magistrates’ court, and

(b) any magistrates’ court may discharge functions conferred on a court by those Rules in relation to such service.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 9 in force at 28.6.2022, see s. 51(3)(b)