SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 36Further minor and consequential amendments

Part 4Trials on indictment without a jury

51Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (c. 23)

1

Section 22 (power of Secretary of State to set time limits in relation to preliminary stages of criminal proceedings) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (11A)—

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—

11AA

The references in subsection (11A) above 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.