Criminal Justice Act 1925

PART IProbation of Offenders

1Probation officers

2Probation areas and committees

3Selection of probation officers

4Employment of agents of voluntary societies as probation officers

5Salaries and expenses

6Supplemental provisions as to probation orders

7Minor amendments of Probation of Offenders Acts

8Power to make rules

9Application of Part I. to London

10Interpretation of Part I

PART IIJurisdiction and Procedure

Indictable Offences generally

11Venue in indictable offences

12Provisions as to taking of depositions, and caution to and statement of accused on proceedings before examining justices

13Binding over of witnesses conditionally and reading of depositions at trial

14Power of justices to commit to, and of court to direct re-trial at, convenient assizes or quarter sessions

15Provision for continuance of criminal trial where a juror dies or becomes incapable

16Amendments of Criminal Appeal Act, 1907

17Rules with respect to procedure of examining justices

Quarter Sessions

18Extension of criminal jurisdiction of quarter sessions

19Power to dispense with grand jury at quarter sessions where all persons committed have pleaded guilty

20Court of quarter sessions on appeal to state case on point of law

21Power to enter appeal for adjourned or intermediate sessions

22Times for holding county quarter sessions

23Amendment of County of Hertford Acts, 1874 and 1878

Summary Jurisdiction

24Summary trial of indictable offences

25Right of appeal against sentence imposed by court of summary jurisdiction

26Enforcement of recognizances to be of good behaviour

27Consecutive sentences of imprisonment

28Summary proceedings for offence under s. 3, and amendments of ss. 3 and 4, of Perjury Act, 1911

29Application of s. 20 of 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43, where distress warrant issued under s. 693 of 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60

30Summary proceedings for offences under s. 10 of 6 Edw. 7. c 48

Issue of Process by Justices

31Provisions as to issue of process by justices in case of persons outside jurisdiction

32Form of documents in criminal proceedings before justices

33Procedure on charge of offence against corporation

34Fiats and consents of Attorney-General, & c, to be admissible in evidence

PART IIIAmendments as to Offences

35Amendment of ss. 1 and 18 of Forgery Act, 1913

36Forgery of passport

37Unlawful possession of pension documents

38Imitation, &c, of currency or bank notes

39Amendment of ss. 42 and 43 of Offences against the Person Act, 1861

40Penalty for drunkenness while in charge of motor car

41Prohibition on taking photographs, &c, in court

42Amendment of s. 4 of Vagrancy Act, 1824

43Amendment of s. 15 of Theatres Act, 1843

PART IVMiscellaneous and General

44Power of arrest under warrant

45Power to release on bail before charge is accepted

46Amendments as to detention in Borstal institutions

47Abolition of presumption of coercion of married woman by husband

48Amendment of Schedule 1. of Children Act, 1908

49Short title, interpretation, extent, repeal and commencement

FIRST SCHEDULEOffences triable at Quarter Sessions

1Offences under sections sixteen and seventeen of the Malicious Damage...

2Unlawful combinations and conspiracies to cheat and defraud.

3Offences under section thirteen of the Criminal Law Amendment Act,...

4Offences under sections fifty to fifty-six of the Post Office...

5Offences under section five of the Perjury Act, 1911, in...

6Offences under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section two...

7Offences under the following provisions of the Larceny Act, 1916,...

SECOND SCHEDULEIndictable Offences by Adults which that be dealt with Summarily

1Offences under sections sixteen, twenty, twenty-one and fifty-one of the...

2Misdemeanours under the Coinage Offences Act, 1861.

3Offences under sections twenty and forty-seven of the Offences against...

4Offences under section twenty of the Telegraph Act, 1868.

5Offences under paragraph (1) of section thirteen of the Debtors...

6Offences under the Falsification of Accounts Act, 1875.

7Offences under section thirteen of the Stamp Duties Management Act,...

8Offences under sections fifty to fifty-six of the Post Office...

9Offences under section five of the Perjury Act, 1911, in...

10Offences under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section two...

11Offences under section twenty-seven of the Larceny Act, 1861, or...

12Offences under this Act in relation to passports.

13Attempted suicide.

14Publishing, exhibiting or selling any indecent or obscene book, writing,...

15Committing an indecent assault upon a person, whether male or...

16Offences in relation to stamps issued for the purpose of...

17Aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of any indictable...

18Any offence consisting in the incitement to commit a summary...

THIRD SCHEDULEEnactments repealed

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Criminal Justice Act 1925

1925 CHAPTER 86

An Act to amend the law with respect to the administration of criminal justice in England, and otherwise to amend the criminal law.

[22nd December 1925]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—