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).