The Magistrates' Courts (Backing of Warrants) (Amendment) Rules 1989
These Rules amend the Magistrates' Courts (Backing of Warrants) Rules 1965 (which apply only to England and Wales) in relation to appeals by way of case stated against refusals to order the delivery of persons to the Republic of Ireland under section 2A of the Backing of Warrants (Republic of Ireland) Act 1965 (inserted by Schedule 1 to the Criminal Justice Act 1988). Rule 3 of these Rules requires notice to be given to the Crown Office of the release on bail of the person concerned pending such an appeal. New rules 5A and 5B (inserted by rule 4) specify respectively a period during which an application to state a case must be made and a period during which the court must comply with such an application