Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (c. 23)
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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.”