Crown Suits Act 1855

III Power to Judges to make Rules and Orders for Regulation of Pleading and Practice in Crown Suits.

And whereas the Procedure and Practice in Informations, Suits, and other Proceedings instituted by or on behalf of the Crown in Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer is dilatory, and requires Amendment, and it is desirable that the same should be assimilated as nearly as may be to the Course of Practice and Procedure now in force in Actions and Suits between Subject and Subject: Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Barons of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer in England, or any Three of them, and also for the Barons of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland, or any Three of them, in their respective Courts, to make all such General Rules and Orders for the Regulation of the Pleading and Practice in such Informations, Suits, and other Proceedings, and to frame such Writs and Forms of Proceedings, as to them may seem expedient for the Purpose aforesaid ; and all such Rules, Orders, or Regulations shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, if Parliament be then sitting, immediately upon the making of the same, or if Parliament be not sitting, then within Five Days after the next Meeting thereof; and no such Rule, Order, or Regulation shall have Effect until Three Months after the same shall have been so laid before both Houses of Parliament; and any Rule, Order, or Regulation so made shall, from and after such Time aforesaid, be binding and obligatory on the said Court, and on all Courts of Error into which any Judgment of the said Court shall be carried by any Writ of Error, and be of the like Force and Effect, as if the Provisions contained therein had been expressly enacted by Parliament : Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by any Proclamation inserted in the London Gazette, or for either of the Houses of Parliament, by any Resolution passed at any Time within Three Months next after such Rules, Orders, and Regulations shall have been laid before Parliament, to suspend the whole or any Part of such Rules, Orders, or Regulations, and in such Case the whole, or such Part thereof as shall be so suspended, shall not be binding and obligatory on the said Courts, or on any other Court of Common Law or Court of Error.