1. These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 1989 and shall come into force on 3rd April 1989.

2. The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981(2) shall be amended by the insertion after rule 104 of the following rule:

"Statements, etc. relevant to making confiscation orders under the Criminal Justice Act 1988(3)

104A.-(1) Where a defendant has been convicted of an offence listed in Schedule 4 to the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the prosecutor or the defendant proposes to tender to a magistrates' court any statement or other document under section 73 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (statements, etc. relevant to making confiscation orders) he shall serve it within such time as the court may require on the clerk of the magistrates' court, and at the same time serve a copy thereof on the defendant or the prosecutor, as the case may be.

(2) Any statement tendered to the magistrates' court by the prosecutor or the defendant under section 73 of the said Act of 1988 shall include the following particulars, namely-“

(a)the name of the defendant and the case number;

(b)the name of the person by whom the statement is tendered and, if different, the name of the person by whom it is made;

(c)the date on which and the place where the conviction for the offence occurred;

(d)the facts relied on in support of any allegation or matter indicated.".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981 so as to insert a new rule 104A in connection with section 73 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988. Rule 104A contains procedural provisions relating to the statements and other documents tendered to the court under section 73, which facilitates the determination by the court whether a person has benefited from an offence to which Part VI of the Act of 1988 applies and the assessment by that court of the value of the defendant's benefit.

The Rules, by virtue of rule 1, come into force on 3rd April 1989, the date on which Part VI of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 comes into force (S.I. 1989/264).