The Crown Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2018

Made: 29th January 2018

Laid before Parliament: 1st February 2018

Coming into operation in accordance with Rule 1

The Crown Court Rules Committee makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 52(1) and 53A of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978[^f00001] and regulation 61 of the Criminal Justice (European Investigation Order) Regulations 2017[^f00002].

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

These Rules shall be cited as the Crown Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2018 and shall come into operation on the twenty-first day after the date upon which this instrument is laid before Parliament.

2

In these Rules “the principal Rules” means the Crown Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1979[^f00003], and a reference to a rule is a reference to that rule so numbered in the principal Rules.

Amendment to the Principal Rules

3

In the principal Rules, after Rule 62B, insert the new Part VIIIA set out in the Schedule to these Rules.

SCHEDULE 1

Signed

Declan Morgan — Seamus Treacy — Brian Archer — Joseph O’Keefe — Martin Rodgers — Dated 18th August 2017

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 53A of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978, I allow these Rules.

David Gauke — Lord Chancellor — Ministry of Justice — Date 29th January 2018

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Rules amend the Crown Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1979 (S.R. 1979 No. 90) to take account of the Criminal Justice (European Investigation Order) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/730) which transpose Directive 2014/41/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 regarding the European Investigation Order in criminal matters. (OJ NO L 130, 1.5.2014, p.1).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c.23, to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by paragraphs 26 and 28 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4); paragraph 6 of Schedule 17 to, and paragraphs 14 and 26 of Schedule 18 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976); and paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c.13).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2017/730.

[^f00003]: S.R. 1979 No. 90, to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by S.R. 2004 No. 233, S.R. 2010 No. 133 and S.R. 2011 No. 230.