Section 86A: Process for making rules of court under section 84

Senior Courts Act 1981 · 1981 c. 54View on legislation.gov.uk

Part III: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE — : Rules of Court

Crown Court rules must be submitted to the Lord Chancellor after being made by the Lord Chief Justice

The Lord Chancellor may allow or disallow rules so made.

If the Lord Chancellor disallows rules, he must give the Lord Chief Justice written reasons for doing so.

Rules so made and allowed by the Lord Chancellor—

come into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor directs, and
are to be contained in a statutory instrument to which the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 applies as if the instrument contained rules made by a Minister of the Crown.

A statutory instrument containing Crown Court rules is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

In this section and section 86B "Crown Court rules" means rules of court made under section 84.

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