Criminal Justice Act 2003

Valid from 24/07/2006

53 (1) Section 7 (power to order preparatory hearing) is amended as follows. E+W

(2) In subsection (1) for “the jury are sworn” there is substituted “ the time when the jury are sworn ”.

(3) After subsection (2) there is inserted—

“(2A) The reference in subsection (1) above to the time when the jury are sworn includes the time when the jury would be sworn but for the making of an order under Part 7 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 36 Pt. 4 wholly in force at 8.1.2007; Sch. 36 Pt. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 336(3); Sch. 36 Pt. 4 in force for E.W. at 24.7.2006 by S.I. 2006/1835, art. 2 (subject to art. 3); Sch. 36 Pt. 4 in force in so far as not already in force at 8.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3422, art. 2