The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011

Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2011

3.  In Part 2 (Understanding and applying the Rules)—

(a) in rule 2.1 (When the Rules apply), after paragraph (3) insert—

“(4) Rule 9.6, and the rules in Section 3 of Part 9 (Allocation and sending for trial), apply only where there have come into force the amendments made by Schedule 3 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003(1) (Allocation of cases triable either way, and sending cases to the Crown Court, etc.) which confer the powers to which those rules apply.”; and

(b) in rule 2.3 (References to Acts of Parliament and to Statutory Instruments)—

(i) for ‘The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Defence Disclosure Time Limits) Regulations 1997(2)’ substitute ‘The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Defence Disclosure Time Limits) Regulations 2011(3)’, and

(ii) for ‘the 1997 Regulations’ substitute ‘the 2011 Regulations’.

(1)

2003 c. 44; Schedule 3 was amended by sections 53 and 149 of, and paragraphs 1 to 10 of Schedule 13 and Schedule 28 to, the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4) and section 378 of, and Schedule 17 to, the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52). It is further amended by section 149 of, and Schedule 28 to, the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4) and Schedule 23 to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), with effect from a date to be appointed.

(2)

S.I. 1997/684.

(3)

S.I. 2011/209.