SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 36Further minor and consequential amendments

Part 4Trials on indictment without a jury

Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c. 25)

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1

Section 39 (meaning of pre-trial hearing) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (3)—

a

for “when a jury is sworn” there is substituted “ at the time when a jury is sworn ”,

b

for “a jury is sworn” there is substituted “ the time when a jury is sworn ”.

3

After that subsection there is inserted—

4

The references in subsection (3) to the time when a jury is sworn include the time when that jury would be sworn but for the making of an order under Part 7 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.