Proposed Negative Published: 13 February 2019 Sift end date: 04 March 2019
These Regulations amend the Crown Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1979, the Magistrates’ Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984 and the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015 (that apply respectively, in Northern Ireland and England and Wales). They are made using powers in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and address deficiencies in the relevant legislation that arise from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, and amendments made by other instruments made under powers conferred by that Act. They remove from those procedure rules references to provisions that will be repealed, revoked or disapplied by the Act and by those other instruments.
