The Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996) (Tainted Acquittals) Rules 1997

Display of copy certification form

7.—(1) Where a magistrates' court makes a certification as referred to in section 54(2) of the Act, the clerk of the court shall, as soon as practicable after the drawing up of Form TAM 1, display a copy of that form at a prominent place within court premises to which place the public has access.

(2) Where an acquittal has taken place before a magistrates' court and the court which has made the certification under section 54(2) of the Act in relation to the acquittal is not a magistrates' court sitting at the same place as the court before which the acquittal has taken place, the clerk of the last mentioned court shall, as soon as practicable after receipt from the court which has made the certification of a copy of a form recording the certification (being a copy of Form TAM 1 where the certification has been made by a magistrates' court), display a copy of that form at a prominent place within court premises to which place the public has access.

(3) The copy of Form TAM 1 referred to in paragraph (1) above, or the copy form referred to in paragraph (2) above, shall continue to be displayed as referred to, respectively, in those paragraphs at least until the expiry of 28 days from, in the case of paragraph (1) above, the day on which the certification was made, or, in the case of paragraph (2) above, the day on which the copy form was received by the clerk of the court.