SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 36Further minor and consequential amendments

Part 4Trials on indictment without a jury

Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (c. 23)

51(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.