The Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) (Amendment) Rules 2000

• Citation: S.I. 2000/1872
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall come into force on the day on which section 78 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 comes into force.

Section 2

The Magistrates' Courts (Extradition) Rules 1989 shall be amended as follows:—

(a) In rule 2 for the words “and “metropolitan magistrate”” there shall be substituted the words “,“Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate)” and “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)””;

(b) in rule 5(2) and rule 6(1) and (2) for the words “a metropolitan magistrate” there shall be substituted the words “the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) or another District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) designated by him for the purposes of the Act”;

(c) in the Schedule, in Form 1 for the words “metropolitan magistrate” there shall be substituted the words “the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) ( or a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) designated for the purposes of the Act by the Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate))” and for the words “Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate” there shall be substituted the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”; and

(d) in the Schedule, in Form 2 for the words “Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate” there shal be substituted the words “District Judge (Magistrates' Courts)”.