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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11Amendment of enactments relating to bail

Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)

25After paragraph 1 insert—

1A(1)The paragraphs of this Part of this Schedule mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) do not apply in relation to bail in, or in connection with, proceedings where—

(a)the defendant has attained the age of 18,

(b)the defendant has not been convicted of an offence in those proceedings, and

(c)it appears to the court that there is no real prospect that the defendant will be sentenced to a custodial sentence in the proceedings.

(2)The paragraphs are—

(a)paragraph 2 (refusal of bail for failure to surrender to custody),

(b)paragraph 3 (refusal of bail where defendant would commit further offences on bail), and

(c)paragraph 7 (refusal of bail in certain circumstances when arrested under section 7).