The Magistrates’ Courts (Detention and Forfeiture of Listed Assets) Rules 2017 No. 1293 (L. 24)

Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 1293 (L. 24)

Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales

Procedure

The Magistrates’ Courts (Detention and Forfeiture of Listed Assets) Rules 2017

Made

11th December 2017

Laid before Parliament

18th December 2017

Coming into force

16th April 2018

The Lord Chief Justice, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980(1):

(1)

1980 c. 43. Section 144 has been amended by section 109(1) and paragraphs 245(1), (2), (5) of Schedule 8 and Schedule 10 to the Courts Act 2003; section 15(1) and paragraphs 99, 102(1), (2), (3)(a), (3)(b), (4) and (6) of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005; section 208(1) and paragraphs 42, 43(b) of Schedule 21 to the Legal Services Act 2007; Article 3(2) and paragraphs 1(1), (2) – (6) of Schedule 2 to SI 2012/2398 and section 17(6) and paragraphs 39, 52 and 99 of Schedule 10 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013.