2001 No. 613 (L.9)
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Rules 2001

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
We, the Crown Court Rule Committee, in exercise of the powers conferred on us by sections 84(1) and (2) and 86 of the Supreme Court Act 19811, hereby make the following Rules:

1.

These Rules may be cited as the Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Rules 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

2.

In Schedule 1 (Forms) to the Criminal Appeal Rules 19682—

(i)

in Slip 3 of Form NG (Forms 2 & 3) for the words “Clerk to the Justices” there shall be substituted the words “Justices' Chief Executive”; and

(ii)

in footnote (l) of Forms 8, 10 and 19 for the words “clerk of” there shall be substituted the words “justices' chief executive for”.

Irvine of Lairg, C.
Woolf, C.J.
Kay, L.J.
Potter, L.J.
Charles Harris,
L.E. Dickinson
(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Criminal Appeal Rules 1968 to transfer the administrative functions of justices clerks under the Rules to justices' chief executives in line with section 90 (transfer of clerks' functions to chief executives) of, and Schedule 13 to, the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22) which implement corresponding transfers in primary legislation.

Subsection (5) of that section provides that for the purposes of that section the administrative functions of justices' clerks are all of their functions apart from those which are legal functions within the meaning given by section 48(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c. 25), as substituted by section 89(1) of the 1999 Act.