The Magistrates' Courts (Forms) (Amendment) Rules 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1149 (L. 12)

MAGISTRATES' COURTS

The Magistrates' Courts (Forms) (Amendment) Rules 1999

Made

10th April 1999

Laid before Parliament

13th April 1999

Coming into force

4th May 1999

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(1), as extended by section 145 of that Act, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 144, hereby makes the following Rules:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Forms) (Amendment) Rules 1999, and shall come into force on 4th May 1999.

2.  In the Table of Contents in Schedule 2 to the Magistrates' Courts (Forms) Rules 1981(2), after the entry for Form 27 there shall be inserted:–

“27A.  Notice to defendant: plea of guilty in absence – written statement procedure.”and after the entry for Form 28 there shall be inserted:–

“28A.  Plea and mitigation form.”.

3.  The forms numbered 27A and 28A contained in the Schedule to these Rules shall be inserted after Forms 27 and 28 respectively in Schedule 2 to the Magistrates' Courts (Forms) Rules 1981.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

G.W. Hoon

Minister of State,

Lord Chancellor’s Department

Dated 10th April 1999

SCHEDULE

SUMMARY TRIAL—FORM 27 A

SUMMARY TRIAL—FORM 28 APlea and mitigation form (MC Act 1980 s.12(4))

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Rules prescribe a new Form 27A, for use in cases where statements are served under the procedure in section 12 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, as amended by the Magistrates' Courts (Procedure) Act 1998, and a new Form 28A, for a defendant to record his intended plea and statement of mitigation.

(2)

S.I. 1981/553.