Administration of Justice Act 1964

THE MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT 1952

22 (1) Section 10 shall, in its application to a magistrates' court for an area in Greater London, have effect as if for the words from " unlikely" to " within" in proviso (a) there were substituted the words " unlikely that the trial of the accused's case would otherwise begin within ".

(2) Section 12 shall, in its application to the Central Criminal Court, have effect as if for the reference to the end of the assizes there were substituted a reference to the latest date on which, under paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to this Act, the trial of the accused must begin or, if the court has under that paragraph ordered that the trial shall begin on some other date, that other date.

(3) Section 112 shall apply to magistrates' courts held by metropolitan stipendiary magistrates or held at either of the justice rooms of the City as it applies to other magistrates' courts.

(4) Notwithstanding subsection (4) of section 118, subsections (1) and (2) of that section shall apply to the justices' clerks for the inner London area, and shall so apply as if for the reference in subsection (2) to the magistrates' courts committee there were substituted a reference to the committee of magistrates.

(5) In the definition of " county " in section 126(1), the words from " except" to " County of London " shall be omitted, and at the end there shall be added the words " and references to a county include references to the City of London and any London commission area ".