Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force on 1st September 2004 section 6(3) and Schedule 2 (abolition of magistrates' courts committees: transfers), section 69 (Criminal Procedure Rules), section 72 (process for making Criminal Procedure Rules) and section 73 (power to amend legislation in connection with the rules) of the Courts Act 2003.
It also brings into force on 1st September 2004 a number of minor consequential amendments and repeals in Schedules 8 and 10 to the Courts Act 2003, relating to the establishment of the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee and the making of Criminal Procedure Rules. But the amendment or repeal of any enactment, by those provisions, shall not affect the operation of that enactment in relation to rules of court other than Criminal Procedure Rules during the period between 1st September 2004 and the coming into force of the first Criminal Procedure Rules.