The Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (Children)) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made: 17th November 2003

Coming into operation: 18th December 2003

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by Article 13 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[^f00001], on the advice of the Magistrates' Courts Rules Committee and after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (Children)) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 18th December 2003.

• (2) In these Rules, a reference to a Schedule or a Form by a number means the Schedule or Form so numbered in the Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (Children)) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999[^f00002].

Amendment to the principal Rules

2

Schedule 1 shall be amended as follows:

• (a) for Form 17, there shall be substituted the new Form 17 in the Schedule to these Rules; and

• (b) after Form 41, there shall be inserted the new Forms 42 to 55 in the Schedule to these Rules.

SCHEDULE — FORMS TO BE SUBSTITUTED OR INSERTED IN THE MAGISTRATES' COURTS (CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN)) RULES (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1999

FORM 17

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Article 36(1))

FORM 42

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Article 36A)

FORM 43

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Article 36E)

FORM 44

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Article 36J)

FORM 45

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraph 2)

FORM 46

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 2 and 8)

FORM 47

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 2 and 8)

FORM 48

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 3 and 4)

FORM 49

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 4 and 6)

FORM 50

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 4 and 6)

FORM 51

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 4 and 6)

FORM 52

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraph 5)

FORM 53

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 5 and 8)

FORM 54

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraphs 5 and 8)

FORM 55

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CHILDREN) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1998

(Schedule 1A, paragraph 5)

Signed

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Lord Filkin — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department for Constutional Affairs — Dated 17th November 2003

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (Children)) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1999 by –

• (a) substituting a new Form of recognizance by [parent] [guardian] for good behaviour of child, in which details of specific behaviour from which the child must refrain must be specified; and

• (b) inserting new forms for use in connection with applications in relation to reparation orders, community responsibility orders and youth conference orders.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)

[^f00002]: S.R. 1999 No. 7