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Statutory Instruments

2024 No. 254 (L. 5)

Magistrates’ Courts, England And Wales

The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules 2024

Made

27th February 2024

Laid before Parliament

4th March 2024

Coming into force

8th April 2024

The Lady Chief Justice, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, makes the following rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980(1) and section 2(2)(a) of the Civil Evidence Act 1995(2).

(1)

1980 c. 43; section 144 was amended by section 109(1) and (3) and paragraphs 245(1), (2), (5) of Schedule 8 and Schedule 10 to the Courts Act 2003, section 15(1) and paragraphs 99, 102(1), (2), (3)(a), (3)(b), (4) and (6) of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, section 208(1) and paragraphs 42, 43(b) of Schedule 21 to the Legal Services Act 2007, article 3(2) and paragraphs 1(1), (2) to (6) of Schedule 2 to S.I. 2012/2398, section 17(6) and paragraphs 39, 52 and 99 of Schedule 10 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 and section 3 and paragraphs 5 and 10 of the Schedule to the Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018.