2000 No. 1872
MAGISTRATES' COURTS
PROCEDURE

The Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) (Amendment) Rules 2000

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force in accordance with rule 1
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 144 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 19801, after consultation with the Rule Committee appointed under that section, hereby makes the following Rules:

1.

These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall come into force on the day on which section 78 of the Access to Justice Act 19992 comes into force.

2.

The Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) Rules 19893 shall be amended as follows:—

(a)

In rule 2 for the words “and “metropolitan magistrate”” there shall be substituted the words “,“Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate)” and “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)””;

(b)

in rule 5(2) and rule 6(1) and (2) for the words “a metropolitan magistrate” there shall be substituted the words “the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) or another District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) designated by him for the purposes of the Act”;

(c)

in the Schedule, in Form 1 for the words “metropolitan magistrate” there shall be substituted the words “the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) (or a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) designated for the purposes of the Act by the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate))” and for the words “Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate” there shall be substituted the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”; and

(d)

in the Schedule, in Form 2 for the words “Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate” there shal be substituted the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”.

Irvine of Lairg, C.
(This Note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) Rules 1989 (No. 1597) to take account of the coming into force of section 78 of, and Schedule 11 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) which unify and rename the stipendiary bench.