http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/613/madeThe Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Rules 2001Courts of lawKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2011-07-04CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, ENGLAND AND WALES 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. 2001 No. 613 (L.9) CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, ENGLAND AND WALES The Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Rules 2001 Made 27th February 2001 Laid before Parliament 2nd March 2001 Coming into force 1st April 2001 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 1981, 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 1968— 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 27th February 2001 (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.

1981 c. 54; section 84(1) is amended by section 10 of, paragraph 1(1) and (4) of Schedule 2 to, the Civil Procedure Act 1997 (c. 12) and section 86 is amended by section 125(3) of, and paragraph 36(2) of Schedule 18 to, the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41). S.I. 1968/1262. The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1978/1118 and S.I. 1987/1977.