The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 706 (L.12)

MAGISTRATES' COURTS

PROCEDURE

The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 1997

Made

10th March 1997

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1997

Coming into force

1st April 1997

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(1), and after consultation with the Rules Committee appointed under the said section 144, hereby makes the following Rules:—

(1)

1980 c. 43; as extended by section 145 of that Act (which is in turn amended by section 65(3) of, and schedule 5 to, the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996).