Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022

Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 U.K.

14 In section 27 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (service of notices to do with closure of unlicensed premises)—

(a) in subsection (1), for the words from “served” (in the second place it occurs) to the end of paragraph (d) substitute “served in accordance with Criminal Procedure Rules.”;

(b) after that subsection insert—

“(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1)—

(a) Criminal Procedure Rules (as they have effect from time to time) apply to the document to be served as if it were a document to be served in criminal proceedings before a magistrates’ court, and

(b) any magistrates’ court may discharge functions conferred on a court by those Rules in relation to such service.”;

(c) omit subsections (2) to (8).

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 14 in force at 28.6.2022, see s. 51(3)(b)