The Crown Court (Modification) Rules 1998

2.—(1) The Crown Court Rules 1982(1) shall have effect in any place to which a person is sent for trial under section 51 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998(2) as if they were amended as follows.

(2) In rule 23A(3), after the words “under section 53 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991,”, there shall be inserted the words “or of the service of copies of the documents containing the evidence on which the charge or charges are based under paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998,”.

(3) In rule 23B(4), after the words “Criminal Justice Act 1987,” there shall be inserted the words “or of the service of copies of the documents containing the evidence on which the charge or charges are based under paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998,”.

(4) In rule 23C(5), after the words “under section 53 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991,” there shall be inserted the words “or of the service of copies of the documents containing the evidence on which the charge or charges are based under paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998,”.

(5) After rule 24 there shall be added the following rule–

“24ZA.   The appropriate officer of the Crown Court sitting at a place to which notice has been given under section 51(7) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, shall list the first Crown Court appearance of the person to whom the notice relates so that it shall be no later than 28 days after the date on which the Crown Court received the notice or, in the case of a person committed to custody under section 52(1)(a) of that Act, 8 days after that date.”

(6) In rule 27, after paragraph (g) there shall be inserted–

“(h) jurisdiction under Rule 24ZA.”

(1)

S.I. 1982/1109; rule 23A was inserted by S.I. 1988/2160, rule 2 (substituted by S.I. 1992/1847, rule 3); rule 23B by S.I. 1990/2157, rule 2; and rule 23C by S.I. 1992/1847, rule 4.

(2)

1998 c. 37.