CRIMINAL CASES

Periods for short-term compulsion: amendments made by section 42 of the Act

21.  Despite the commencement of section 42 of the Act—

(a) the amendment made by subsection (3) of that section to section 53A(1) of the 1995 Act (interim compulsion order: supplementary) has no effect where the interim compulsion order referred to in section 53A(1) of the 1995 Act was made before the appointed day;

(b) the amendment made by subsection (5) of that section to section 54 of the 1995 Act (unfitness for trial: further provision) has no effect where the temporary compulsion order referred to in section 54(2B)(a)(2) of the 1995 Act is made before the appointed day.

(1)

Section 53A was inserted by the 2003 Act, section 131.

(2)

Subsection (2B) was inserted by the 2003 Act, schedule 4, paragraph 8(b).