Magistrates' Courts (Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1999 No. 223

MAGISTRATES' COURTS

Magistrates' Courts (Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999

Made

12th May 1999

Coming into operation

1st June 1999

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Article 13 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1) and Article 165 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(2) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, on the advice of the Magistrates' Courts Rules Committee and after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, hereby makes the following Rules:—

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st June 1999.

Disclosure of documents

2.  In Rule 23 of the Magistrates' Courts (Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996(3)—

(a) for the words “paragraphs (2) to (4)” in paragraph (1) substitute the words “paragraphs (2) and (3)”; and

(b) paragraph (4) is hereby revoked.

Irvine of Lairg, C.

Dated 12th May 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules revoke paragraph (4) of Rule 23 of the Magistrates' Courts (Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996 (disclosure of documents) and make a consequential amendment.

(1)

S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)

(2)

S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)

(3)

S.R. 1996 No. 323 as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 63