Administration of Justice Act 1964

Section 1.

SCHEDULE 1 The Central Criminal Court

Constitution

1 The Central Criminal Court (hereafter in this Schedule referred to as " the Court") shall consist of ex officio judges, additional judges and such other persons as may be included in any commission issued under paragraph 4 of this Schedule, and those judges and commissioners shall be the judges of the Court.

2 The ex officio judges shall be the holders of the following offices, that is to say—

City	Supreme Court
Lord Mayor of the City.	Lord Chancellor.
Alderman of the City.	Lord Chief Justice.
Recorder of London.	Judge of the Queen's Bench
Common Serjeant.	Division of the High Court.

3 The additional judges shall be the judges of the Court appointed or holding office under Part II of the City of London (Courts) Act 1964.

Jurisdiction

4 Her Majesty may by commissions of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Greater London addressed to the judges of the Court assign to them the duty to exercise jurisdiction under the commissions as judges of the Court, and the commissions shall have the like effect as respects Greater London as commissions of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery issued for a county elsewhere in England and Wales have as respects that county.

5 The jurisdiction of the Court shall include jurisdiction to try and determine indictments for offences committed within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England.

6 Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that the area of jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court for any session of the Court specified in the Order shall extend to any specified area adjoining Greater London ; and any enactment (including any enactment in this Act) relating to the Central Criminal Court shall have effect as respects the session specified in the Order as if the area so specified were part of Greater London.

7 Every Order in Council under the last foregoing paragraph shall be laid before Parliament after being made.

8 The jurisdiction of the Court may be exercised by any one or more of the judges of the Court and those judges shall, when exercising that jurisdiction, be deemed to constitute a court of the High Court.

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.

Officers

15 The clerk of the Court and such other officers of the Court as may be necessary shall be appointed by the judges of the Court, and the salaries and any allowances payable to the clerk and other officers shall be such as may be determined by the judges of the Court.

16 The remuneration and expenses of the clerk and other officers of the Court, and any expenses incurred in the provision and maintenance of office machinery and stationery for the office of the clerk of the Court, shall be defrayed by the Greater London Council.

Supplemental

17 Any commission under paragraph 4 of this Schedule may be issued and revoked in the same manner as a commission of assize and, if not so revoked, shall continue in force until superseded by a new commission thereunder.

18 The foregoing provisions of this Schedule shall be without prejudice to the jurisdiction of a court of quarter sessions for any part of Greater London.