Editorial Information
X1The text of ss. 15(3), 37, 44, 53, 58, Schs. 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
1E+WA prosecution for an offence to which paragraph 14 or 15 (incest and attempts thereat) of Part II of Schedule 2 (table of offences with mode of prosecution) relates shall not be commenced except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions; and accordingly in sub-paragraph (a) and (b) of each of those paragraphs, in the second column, for the words from “without” to “behalf” substitute “except by or with the consent”.
2E+WIn paragraphs 17 and 18 of the said Part II (indecent assault)—
(a)for sub-paragraph (ii)in the second column substitute—
“(ii)summarily (by virtue of section 16(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1977).”;
(b)in the third column, for the words “As provided” to “or both)” substitute—
“As provided by section 28(1) of that Act (that is to say six months or the prescibed sum within the meaning of that section, or both).”.