Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 2094
CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2000
Made
25th July 2000
Laid before Parliament
2nd August 2000
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 19(3)(d) and (e) and 20 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985( 1 ), hereby makes the following Regulations:—
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force immediately after the commencement of section 38(4) of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations a reference to any regulation by number alone means the regulation so numbered in the Costs in Criminal Cases (General) Regulations 1986( 2 ).
Amendments to the Costs in Criminal Cases (General) Regulations 1986
3. For regulation 13C there shall be substituted the following:—
“ 13C. In this Part of the Regulations “court appointee” means:—
(a) a person appointed by the Crown Court under section 4A of the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 ( 3 ) to put the case for the defence;
(b) a legal representative appointed by the court under section 38(4) of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 ( 4 ) to cross-examine a witness in the interests of the accused. ” .
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
David Lock
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Dated 25th July 2000
1985 c. 23 ; section 19(3)(d) was inserted by the Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991 (c. 25) , Schedule 3 paragraph 8, and section 19(3)(e) was inserted by the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (c. 23) section 40(1).
1964 c. 84 ; section 4A was inserted by section 2 of the Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991 (c. 25) .