The Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (Children)) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003 No. 478

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2003 No. 478

MAGISTRATES' COURTS

The Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (Children)) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made

17th November 2003

Coming into operation

18th December 2003

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by Article 13 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1), on the advice of the Magistrates' Courts Rules Committee and after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (Children)) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 18th December 2003.

(2) In these Rules, a reference to a Schedule or a Form by a number means the Schedule or Form so numbered in the Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (Children)) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999(2).

Amendment to the principal Rules

2.  Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows:

(a) for Form 17, there shall be substituted the new Form 17 in the Schedule to these Rules; and

(b) after Form 41, there shall be inserted the new Forms 42 to 55 in the Schedule to these Rules.

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Lord Filkin

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Constutional Affairs

Dated 17th November 2003

Rule 2

SCHEDULE FORMS TO BE SUBSTITUTED OR INSERTED IN THE MAGISTRATES' COURTS (CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN)) RULES (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1999

(Article 36(1))

FORM 17 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Article 36A)

FORM 42 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Article 36E)

FORM 43 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Article 36J)

FORM 44 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraph 2)

FORM 45 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 2 and 8)

FORM 46 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 2 and 8)

FORM 47 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 3 and 4)

FORM 48 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 4 and 6)

FORM 49 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 4 and 6)

FORM 50 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 4 and 6)

FORM 51 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraph 5)

FORM 52 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 5 and 8)

FORM 53 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 5 and 8)

FORM 54 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraph 5)

FORM 55 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (Children)) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999 by –

(a) substituting a new Form of recognizance by [parent] [guardian] for good behaviour of child, in which details of specific behaviour from which the child must refrain must be specified; and

(b) inserting new forms for use in connection with applications in relation to reparation orders, community responsibility orders and youth conference orders.

(1)

S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)

(2)

S.R. 1999 No. 7