Section 55: Duty to review criminal courts charge
496.Section 55 requires the Lord Chancellor to carry out a review of the operation of the criminal courts charge after the end of an initial period. Subsection (2) specifies that the initial period is three years after the criminal courts charge provisions come into force. Subsection (3) requires the Lord Chancellor to repeal the criminal courts charge provisions should he consider it appropriate to do so having regard to the conclusions reached on the review. Subsection (4) enables the Lord Chancellor to make consequential and transitional provisions in regulations providing for the criminal courts charge provisions to be repealed. Subsections (5) and (6) require the regulations to be made by statutory instrument, subject to the affirmative procedure.