This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2007/1610 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
2007 No. 2621 (L. 26)
The Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution of Committees and Right to Preside) (Amendment) Rules 2007
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Senior Presiding Judge (the judicial office holder nominated by the Lord Chief Justice) makes the following Rules, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 19(1) and (2) of the Courts Act 20031, and after consultation with the Lord Chancellor, the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee, the Family Procedure Rule Committee and the Magistrates’ Courts Rule Committee in accordance with section 20(2) of that Act:
Citation and commencement1
These Rules may be cited as the Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution of Committees and Right to Preside) (Amendment) Rules 2007 and shall come into force on 1st October 2007.
Amendments to the Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution of Committees and Right to Preside) Rules 2007
2
The Family Proceedings Courts (Constitution of Committees and Right to Preside) Rules 20072 are amended in accordance with rule 3.
3
In rule 7—
1
for paragraph (1) substitute—
1
In this rule, “previous chairman” means a family justice who has held office as chairman of a family panel established under these Rules.
2
in paragraph (4) omit “, or of an outgoing panel or combined outgoing panel,”; and
3
after paragraph (4) insert—
5
For the purposes of this rule no periods of office held as chairman or deputy chairman, as the case may be, of an outgoing panel or combined outgoing panel shall be taken into account in determining eligibility for re-election as chairman or deputy chairman.
(This note is not part of the Rules)