§ [Nos. 5 and 6.]
§ Clause 53, page 34, line 14, leave out Clause 53, and insert the following clause:
§ Crown Court Rules Committee
§ '.—(1) There shall be a committee known as the Northern Ireland Crown Court Rules Committee (in this Act referred to as the Crown Court Rules Committee) which, subject to section 54(2), shall consist of—
- (a) the Lord Chief Justice who shall be chairman;
- (b) two judges of the High Court or the Court of Appeal nominated from time to time by the Lord Chief Justice;
- (c) two county court judges nominated by the Lord Chancellor after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice;
- (d) a resident magistrate nominated by the Lord Chancellor after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice;
- (e) the Master (Queen's Bench and Appeals);
- (f) a practising member of the Bar of Northern Ireland nominated by the Lord Chancellor;
- (g) one other practising member of the Bar of Northern Ireland nominated by the Council thereof;
- (h) the president of the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland or a member of the Council thereof nominated by him;
- (i) a practising solicitor nominated by that Council;
§ (2) The secretary to the Crown Court Rules Committee shall be such person as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time designate and such secretary shall, in relation to Crown 264 Court rules, be the responsible officer within the meaning of sections 2 and 4 of the Statutory Rules Act (Northern Ireland) 1958.
§ (3) Sections 54(2), (3), (4) and (6), 55(4) and 56(1), (2) and (3) shall apply to the Crown Court Rules Committee and Crown Court rules as if references in those provisions to the Rules Committee and rules of court included references to the Crown Court Rules Committee and Crown Court rules respectively.' Clause 54, page 34, line 34, leave out and section 53(1)'.
§ The LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 5 and 6.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(The Lord Chancellor.)