The Justices’ Clerks and Assistants (Amendment) Rules 2015

Made: 23rd March 2015

Laid before Parliament: 26th March 2015

Coming into force: 1st July 2015

Before making these Rules, the Lord Chancellor has consulted the Family Procedure Rule Committee in accordance with section 31O(1) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1

These Rules may be cited as the Justices’ Clerks and Assistants (Amendment) Rules 2015 and come into force on 1st July 2015.

Amendments to the Justices’ Clerks and Assistants Rules 2014

2

In the table in the Schedule to the Justices’ Clerks and Assistants Rules 2014[^f00002]—

• (a) after the entry for CPA, sections 44(2) and (4), insert—

; and

• (b) after the entry for FPR rule 7.20(5), insert—

Transitional provision

3

The Justices’ Clerks and Assistants Rules 2014 as amended by these Rules apply from the date that these Rules come into force to any proceedings which were commenced in the family court but not disposed of before that date, as they apply to proceedings commenced after that date.

Signed

Simon Hughes — Minister of State — Ministry of Justice — 23rd March 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Rules amend the Justices’ Clerks and Assistants Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/603). Rule 2 amends the table in the Schedule to those Rules to insert references to additional functions of the family court or of a judge of the family court which those Rules authorise justices’ clerks and assistants to justices’ clerks to carry out. Rule 3 makes transitional provision.

No separate impact assessment has been prepared for these Rules.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1984 c.42. Sections 31O and 31P were inserted by section 17(6) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2014/603, amended by S.I. 2014/841.