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Statutory Instruments
MAGISTRATES' COURTS
PROCEDURE
Made
27 August 1998
Laid before Parliament
3rd September 1998
Coming into force
30th September 1998
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(1), after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 144 and with justices of the peace and justices' clerks for the areas specified in rule 3(4) below, hereby makes the following Rules:
1980 c. 43; section 144 is extended by sections 145 and 146 of that Act, by section 45 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25) and by section 49 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37).