Amendments to the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981

21.  For rule 93B(3) substitute—

(3) Where an application has been made to a magistrates' court under section 5B of the Bail Act 1976(1).

(f)the clerk of that magistrates' court shall fix a date, time and place for the hearing of the application; and

(g)the justices' chief executive shall—

(i)give notice of the application and of the date, time and place so fixed in the prescribed form to the person affected; and

(ii)send a copy of the notice to the prosecutor who made the application and to any surety specified in the application..

(1)

1976 c. 63: section 5B was inserted by section 30 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33).