The Magistrates' Courts (Special Measures Directions) (Amendment) Rules 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 184 (L. 1)

MAGISTRATES' COURTS

The Magistrates' Courts (Special Measures Directions) (Amendment) Rules 2004

Made

1st February 2004

Laid before Parliament

2nd February 2004

Coming into force

23rd February 2004

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(1) and sections 20(6), 29(5) and 65(1) of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999(2), after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under the said section 144, hereby makes the following Rules:

(1)

1980 c. 43; section 144 is extended by section 145 of that Act, by the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), section 93, by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), sections 10, 125(3) and Schedule 18, paragraph 25(7) and by the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25), section 45.