SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Times when Proceedings are Active for Purposes of Section 2

Criminal proceedings

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The initial steps of criminal proceedings are :—

a

arrest without warrant;

b

the issue, or in Scotland the grant, of a warrant for arrest;

c

the issue of a summons to appear, or in Scotland the grant of a warrant to cite ;

d

the service of an indictment or other document specifying the charge;

e

except in Scotland, oral charge.