SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11 Transitional provisions

Part II Specific provisions: replication of old transitional provisions

Sections 143, 147, 148 and 150: miscellaneous transitional provisions

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The following provisions of this Act, namely—

a

subsections (6) and (7) of section 143, and

b

subsections (2) and (4) of section 147,

do not apply in relation to an offence committed before 1st July 1992.

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In relation to an offence into which a criminal investigation began before 1st April 1997, section 148 of this Act shall have effect as if for paragraph (b) of subsection (6) there were substituted the following paragraph—

b

the depositions taken at any committal proceedings and any written statements or admissions used as evidence in those proceedings.

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In relation to an offence committed before 3rd February 1995, section 150 of this Act shall have effect as if there were omitted from subsection (2) the words from “and where the court” onwards.