Administration of Justice Act 1964

Sittings

9 The Lord Chief Justice shall fix and cause to be published the date of the beginning of each session of the Central Criminal Court together with a date in that session which is to be the relevant date for the purposes of paragraph 10 of this Schedule.

10 A magistrates' court who would apart from this paragraph be required to commit an accused person for trial to the next session of the Court shall, if the committal falls to be made between the beginning of a session of the Court and the relevant date in that session, commit him to the current session of the Court; and accordingly section 14(1) of the Criminal Justice Administration Act 1962 (which enables a magistrates' court to commit an accused person to current assizes or quarter sessions with the consent of the accused, the prosecutor and the judge) shall, so far as it relates to committal to the Court, only apply to committal to the Court on or after the relevant date in any session of the Court.

11 Where an accused person is committed for trial to the current session of the Court, his trial shall not, except with his and the prosecutor's consent, begin until the expiration of the period of fourteen days beginning with the date of his committal.

12 Where an accused person is committed for trial to the Court, his trial shall, unless the Court has otherwise ordered, begin not later than whichever of the following dates is applicable, that is to say—

(a) where he is committed to the current session, the expiration of the period of twenty-eight days beginning with the date of his committal;

(b) where he is committed to the next session, the expiration of the period of twenty-eight days beginning with the date of his committal or of the period of seven days beginning with the beginning of the next session, whichever is the later.

13 For the purposes of this Schedule the trial of a person committed to the Court shall be deemed to begin when he is arraigned on the charges for which he is indicted in consequence of the committal.

14 The Court may sit at any place in the City and may sit in more than one division simultaneously.