Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1933
1933 c.36
An Act to abolish grand juries and amend the law as to the presentment of indictments; to provide for the summary determination of questions as to liability for death duties; to make provision for alternative procedure for the recovery of Crown debts and to enable proceedings by the Crown to be instituted in county courts in appropriate cases; to amend the procedure as to certain prerogative writs and as to trials by jury in the High Court; to amend the law as to the payment of costs by and to the Crown; to provide for the further delegation of the jurisdiction of the Master in Lunacy; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
Ss. 2, 10(1)(2), and Sch. 2 were originally published in SIF 39:1 (Criminal Law; General) and ss. 7, 9 and 10 in SIF 39A (Crown Proceedings)
By Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), S. 10(1), Sch. 12 para. 23; S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(1), Sch.1 it is provided (14.10.1991) that in relation to any time before the commencement of s. 70 of that 1991 Act (which came into force on 1.10.1992 by S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2) references in any enactment amended by that 1991 Act, to youth courts shall be construed as references to Juvenile Courts.
Act wholly in force at 1.9.1933 by s. 10(4) (now repealed).