Court
of Appeal (Criminal) (Amendment No. 2)
Rules 2021
Made 23rd September 2021
Coming into
force 24th September 2021
1 Court
of Appeal (Criminal) Rules 1964 amended
After Rule 1 of the Court
of Appeal (Criminal) Rules 1964 there is
inserted the following Rule –
“1A Reckoning periods of time
(1) Any
period of time fixed by rules of court or by any judgment,
order or direction for doing any act in relation to any criminal or
quasi-criminal matter within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal shall be
reckoned in accordance with this Rule.
(2) When
the act is required to be done within a specified period after or from a
specified date, the period begins immediately after that date.
(3) When
the act is required to be done within or not less than a specified period
before a specified date, the period ends immediately before that date.
(4) When
the act is required to be done a specified number of clear days before or after
a specified date, at least that number of days must intervene between the day
on which the act is done and that date.
(5) If,
apart from this paragraph, the period in question, being a period of 7 days
or less includes a Saturday, Sunday, public holiday or bank holiday, Christmas
Day or Good Friday, that day is excluded.
(6) In
paragraph (5) “public holiday” and “bank holiday” mean, respectively, a
day appointed to be observed as a public holiday or as a bank holiday under the
Public
Holidays and Bank Holidays (Jersey) Law 1951.”.
2 Consequential
amendments
In Rule 4(1)
of –
(a) the Court
of Appeal (Criminal) (Confiscation Order Appeals) Rules 2009;
(b) the Court
of Appeal (Criminal) (Reference for Review of Sentence) Rules 2009; and
(c) the Court
of Appeal (Criminal) (Reference of Points of Law) Rules 2009,
the word “working” is
deleted.
3 Citation and commencement
These Rules may be cited
as the Court of Appeal (Criminal) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 and come
into force on the day after the day on which they are made.