Magistrate's Court (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (Commencement and Amendment) Ordinance, 2009

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The Magistrate's Court (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (Commencement and Amendment) Ordinance, 2009

THE STATES, in pursuance of their Resolution of the 27^th June, 2007[a], and in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 43(1) and 50 of the Magistrate's Court (Guernsey) Law, 2008[b] and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby order:-

Commencement of Magistrate's Court Law.

1. The Magistrate's Court (Guernsey) Law, 2008 ("the Law") shall come into force on the 1^st September, 2009.

Amendment of Magistrate's Court Law.

2. The Law is amended as follows.

3. For section 43(1) of the Law substitute -

"(1) The States may by Ordinance -

(a) amend Parts II and VII, sections 41 and 42 and (so as to amend the meaning of any expression defined therein or to define any other expression) section 45, where it appears to the States to be necessary or expedient to do so for the purpose of -

(i) facilitating or enhancing the administration of justice in the Bailiwick,

(ii) enabling the Magistrate's Court and the judicial officers and the court officers (within the meaning of Part VII) more effectively to carry out their respective functions,

(iii) facilitating or enhancing the instigation, hearing and determination of, or otherwise for the purposes of, any proceedings,

(iv) facilitating or enhancing the implementation and enforcement of judgments, sentences and other orders of the Magistrate's Court and extending or modifying the classes and descriptions of judgments, sentences and other orders that may be given, imposed or made,

(b) make such additional provision as they think fit for the purposes of carrying this Law into effect.".

4. In section 44(1)(b) of the Law after "expedient" insert "(including, without limitation, in the case of an Ordinance, provision making consequential amendments to this Law and any other enactment)".

5. In section 44(1)(c) of the Law the words "enactment or" are repealed.

Interpretation.

6. In this Ordinance "the Law" means the Magistrate's Court (Guernsey) Law, 2008.

Citation.

7. This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrate's Court (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (Commencement and Amendment) Ordinance, 2009.

Commencement.

8. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1^st September, 2009.

[a]	Article VI of Billet d'État No. XVI of 2007.
[b]	The Law was approved by the States on the 12^th March, 2008.