The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021

Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules

8.  In Part 14 (Bail and custody time limits)—

(a) in rule 14.1 (Where this Part applies)—

(i) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) This Part applies where a magistrates’ court or the Crown Court can—

(a) grant or withhold bail, or impose or vary a condition of bail; and

(b) where bail has been withheld, extend a custody time limit.”,

(ii) in paragraph (2), for “Rules 14.20, 14.21 and 14.22” substitute “Rules 14.18, 14.19 and 14.20”,

(iii) in the first paragraph of the note to the rule, omit sub-paragraph (e) (which refers to Part 7 of the Criminal Justice and Data Protection (Protocol No. 36) Regulations 2014(1)) and renumber sub-paragraphs (f), (g) and (h) as (e), (f) and (g) respectively, and

(iv) for the second paragraph of the note to the rule substitute—

“At the end of this Part there is a summary of the general entitlement to bail and of the exceptions to that entitlement.”;

(b) in rule 14.2 (Exercise of court’s powers: general)—

(i) in the second paragraph of the note to the rule omit “and under regulation 79(3) of the Criminal Justice and Data Protection (Protocol No. 36) Regulations 2014,”, and

(ii) in the fourth paragraph of the note to the rule for “rule 14.20” substitute “rule 14.18”;

(c) in rule 14.4 (General duties of court officer), in each of paragraphs (1)(b)(iii) and (5) for “rule 14.21” substitute “rule 14.19”;

(d) in rule 14.7 (Notice of application to consider bail), in the first paragraph of the note to the rule omit “and forms of application, draft order and certificate for use where an applicant wants the court to exercise the powers to which rule 14.16 applies (Bail condition to be enforced in another European Union member State)”;

(e) omit rules 14.16 (Bail condition to be enforced in another European Union member State) and 14.17 (Enforcement of measure imposed in another European Union member State) and the notes to those rules;

(f) renumber rules 14.18 to 14.22 as rules 14.16 to 14.20 respectively;

(g) in rule 14.18 as thus renumbered (Exercise of court’s powers: extension of pre-charge bail)—

(i) in paragraphs (1) and (8), for “14.21”, in each place it occurs, substitute “14.19”,

(ii) in paragraph (4), for “14.22” substitute “14.20”,

(iii) in the first paragraph of the note to the rule, for “rules 14.21 and 14.22” substitute “rules 14.19 and 14.20”;

(h) amend the table of contents correspondingly; and

(i) in the note at the end of the Part, omit the headings “Requirements that may be monitored and enforced in another European Union member State” and “Grounds for refusing to monitor and enforce a supervision measure imposed in another European Union member State” and the paragraphs that follow each of those headings.

(1)

S.I. 2014/3141.