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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
MAGISTRATES' COURTS
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:
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).
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
(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.
S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)