Citation and interpretation

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 34) and Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2022.

(2) In these Regulations—

“ the 2003 Act ” means the Criminal Justice Act 2003 , and

“ the 2022 Act ” means the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 .

Commencement of provisions in the 2003 Act

2. The following provisions of the 2003 Act come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made—

(a) subsections (7) and (8) of section 281 (alteration of penalties for other summary offences), but only in so far as they relate to section 282 of the 2003 Act (increase in maximum term that may be imposed on summary conviction of offence triable either way), and

(b) the entry in Part 7 of Schedule 37 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (repeals) relating to Schedule 8 to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998( 3 ) (minor and consequential amendments), and section 332 (repeals) in so far as it relates to those provisions.

Commencement of provisions in the 2022 Act

3. The following provisions of the 2022 Act come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made—

(a) section 1 (quashing orders),

(b) section 2 (exclusion of review of Upper Tribunal’s permission-to-appeal decisions),

(c) section 13 (maximum term of imprisonment on summary conviction for either-way offence), in so far as it is not already in force, and

(d) paragraphs 16 to 21 of Schedule 2 (criminal procedure: consequential and related amendments), and section 18 (consequential and related amendments) in so far as it relates to those provisions.