Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules
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8. In Part 28 (Sentencing procedures in special cases), in rule 28.4 (Variation of sentence)—
(a)for paragraph (2) substitute—
“(2) The court—
(a)may exercise its power—
(i)on application by a party, or on its own initiative,
(ii)at a hearing, in public or in private, or without a hearing;
(b)must announce, at a hearing in public—
(i)a decision to vary or rescind a sentence or order, or to refuse to do so, and
(ii)the reasons for that decision.”; and
(b)after paragraph (5) insert—
“(6) For the purposes of the announcement required by paragraph (2)(b), the court need not comprise the same member or members as the court by which the decision to be announced was made.”.