The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2000

Amendment

2.  For Rule 156 of the Magistrates' Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984(1), there shall be substituted the following new Rule—

“Procedure after appeal to county court is determined

156.— (1) After the county court has decided an appeal from a magistrates' court, the chief clerk for the county court division for which that county court is held, within seven days of such decision,

(a) shall certify such decision; and

(b) in any case in which the county court has determined that a right or rights of the appellant under Article 5 of the Convention were infringed by the making of the order to which the appeal relates shall so specify, at the foot of the form of appeal and shall transmit the form of appeal to the clerk of petty sessions who shall enter the details referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) as appropriate in his Order Book.

(2) In this Rule, “the Convention” has the same meaning as in section 21 of the Human Rights Act 1998(2).”.

(1)

S.R. 1984 No. 255; to which there are no relevant amendments

(2)

1998 c. 42