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CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
11th March 1997
Laid before Parliament
11th March 1997
Coming into force
1st April 1997
The Attorney General, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 7 and 8 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Prosecution of Offences (Revocation) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.
2. The Prosecution of Offences Regulations 1978(2) are hereby revoked.
Nicholas Lyell
Her Majesty's Attorney General
11th March 1997
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations revoke the Prosecution of Offences Regulations 1978, which made provision with respect to certain functions of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the furnishing to him by chief officers of the police, magistrates and clerks of magistrates' courts of information about criminal offences and proceedings.
S.I. 1978/1357, amended by S.I. 1978/1846 and S.I. 1985/243. The Regulations ceased to have effect, in part, on the repeal of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1979 (c. 31) by section 31(6) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (c. 23).