The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2024

This Statutory Instrument has been published in substitution of the S.I. of the same number which did not reflect the version signed by the Minister. It is therefore being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2024 No. 842 (L. 12)

Senior Courts Of England And Wales

Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales

The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2024

Made

at 2.15 p.m. on 30th July 2024

Laid before Parliament

at 3.50 p.m. on 30th July 2024

Coming into force in accordance with rule 2

The Criminal Procedure Rule Committee makes the following Rules under sections 67B(1), 69 and 86A(2) of the Courts Act 2003(1), sections 17ZA(2), 17ZB(2), 17ZC(2) and 24ZA(2) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980(2) and sections 51(2D), (2E), (3A), (3B) and 51A(3D), (3E), (4A), (4B) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998(3), after consulting in accordance with section 72(1)(a) of the 2003 Act.

(1)

2003 c. 39; section 67B was inserted by section 3 of, and paragraph 32 of the Schedule to, the Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (c. 33). Section 69 was amended by sections 15(1) and 146 of, and paragraphs 308 and 332 of Schedule 4 and Part 2 of Schedule 18 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4). Section 86A was inserted by section 162 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32).

(2)

1980 c. 43; sections 17ZA, 17ZB and 17ZC are inserted by section 6, and section 24ZA by section 8, of the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35) with effect from a date to be appointed.

(3)

1998 c. 37; sections 51 and 51A are materially amended by section 10 of the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35) with effect from a date to be appointed.