LegalizeThe Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2022
Made: 14th December 2022
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 51(4) and (5) of the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022[^f00001], makes the following Regulations:
Citation and interpretation
1
- (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2022.
- (2) In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022.
Provision coming into force
2
Section 5 of the Act (extension of single justice procedure to corporations) comes into force on the 21st day after the day on which these Regulations are made.
Signed
Mike Freer — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Ministry of Justice — 14th December 2022
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
These Regulations bring into force section 5 of the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35). Section 5 amends section 16A of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c. 43) to widen the scope of the single justice procedure to include prosecution of legal persons such as corporations. An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no significant impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 2022 c. 35.
Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.
This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence.
legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.