(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Costs in Criminal Cases (General) Regulations 1986 to transfer the administrative functions of justices' clerks under the Regulations to justices' chief executives in line with section 90 (transfer of clerks' functions to chief executives) of, and Schedule 13 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) which implement corresponding transfers in primary legislation.
Subsection (5) of that section provides that for the purposes of that section the administrative functions of justices' clerks are all of their functions apart from those which are legal functions within the meaning given by section 48(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25), as substituted by section 89(1) of the 1999 Act.