Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 611
CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
Made
27th February 2001
Laid before Parliament
2nd March 2001
Coming into force
1st April 2001
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 19 and 20 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985( 1 ), hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.
2. In the Costs in Criminal Cases (General) Regulations 1986( 2 )—
(i) in regulation 6 (claim for costs), in paragraph (2), there shall be substituted for the words “appropriate authority in such form and manner as it”, the words “justices' chief executive for the court, in the case of proceedings in a magistrates' court, or to the appropriate authority, in the case of proceedings in any other court specified in regulation 5(2), in such form and manner as he or it”; and
(ii) in regulation 8 (payment of costs), in paragraph (1), there shall be substituted for the words “Having determined the costs payable to an applicant in accordance with these Regulations, the appropriate authority”, the words “When the appropriate authority has determined the costs payable to an applicant in accordance with these Regulations, the justices' chief executive for the court, in the case of proceedings in a magistrates' court, or the appropriate authority, in the case of proceedings in any other court specified in regulation 5(2),”.
Irvine of Lairg, C.
27th February 2001