The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2017

Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015

8.  In Part 24 (Trial and sentence in a magistrates’ court), in the note to rule 24.1 (When this Part applies)—

(a) in the fourth paragraph, for “the Justices of the Peace (Size and Chairmanship of Bench) Rules 2005(1)” substitute “the Justices of the Peace Rules 2016(2)”; and

(b) for the sixth paragraph substitute—

“Under section 45 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933(3) and under the Justices of the Peace Rules 2016, where the court is a youth court comprising justices each member must be authorised to sit as a member of that youth court.”.

(1)

S.I. 2005/553.

(2)

S.I. 2016/709.

(3)

1933 c. 12; section 45 was substituted by section 50 of the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39) and amended by section 15 of, and paragraph 20 of Schedule 4 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4).