The Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Amendment No. 3) 2003

Made: 17th December 2003

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation: 1st January 2004

We, the Northern Ireland Supreme Court Rules Committee, being the authority having for the time being power under section 55 of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978[^f00001] to make, amend or revoke rules regulating the practice and procedure of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland, hereby, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, exercise those powers as follows:

Citation commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Rules may be cited as the Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Amendment No. 3) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2004.

• (2) In these Rules, “the principal Rules” means the Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) 1980[^f00002], and an Order referred to by a number means the Order so numbered in the principal Rules.

Arrangement of Orders

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The arrangement of Orders at the beginning of the principal Rules shall be amended by inserting after the entry relating to Order 61, the following –

(61A) The Extradition Act 2003 – Appeals to the High Court

Amendment of the principal Rules

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After Order 61 there shall be inserted the new Order set out in the Schedule to these Rules.

SCHEDULE

Signed

R. D. Carswell — Anthony Campbell — Paul Girvan — Mark Horner — Declan Morgan — Tony Caher — Caroline McGonagle — Dated 11th December 2003

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

I concur

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

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) 1980 to prescribe the practice and procedure in relation to appeals to the High Court under the Extradition Act 2003.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1978 c. 23

[^f00002]: S.R. 1980 No. 346; to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by S.R. 2003 No. 54 and S.R. 2003 No. 263