The Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996) (Tainted Acquittals) Rules 1997

Entry in the register of the magistrates' court of acquittal

6.—(1) The clerk of a magistrates' court before which an acquittal has taken place shall, as soon as practicable after receipt from the court which has made the certification under section 54(2) of the Act relating to the acquittal, of a copy of a form recording the certification (being a copy of Form TAM 1 where the certification has been made by a magistrates' court), or, where the court which has made the certification is a magistrates' court sitting at the same place as the court before which the acquittal has taken place, as soon as practicable after the making of the certification, enter in the register of the court, in relation to the acquittal, a note that the certification has been made, the date of the certification, the name of the court which has made the certification, the name of the person whose conviction occasioned the making of the certification, and a description of the offence of which that person has been convicted.

(2) Notwithstanding rule 66(11) of the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981, where the court which has made the certification as referred to in paragraph (1) above is not a magistrates' court sitting at the same place as the magistrates' court before which the acquittal has taken place, the entry referred to in paragraph (1) above shall be signed by the clerk of the court before which the acquittal has taken place (without prejudice to the application of rule 66(11) of the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981 to the case where the said certification has been made by a magistrates' court sitting at the same place as the court before which the acquittal has taken place).