The Bail (Amendment) Act 1993 (Prescription of Prosecuting Authorities) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 1438

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Bail (Amendment) Act 1993 (Prescription of Prosecuting Authorities) Order 1994

Made

25th May 1994

Laid before Parliament

6th June 1994

Coming into force

27th June 1994

In exercise of the power conferred upon me by section 1(2)(b) and (11) of the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993(1), I hereby make the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993 (Prescription of Prosecuting Authorities) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 27th June 1994.

2.  The prosecuting authorities specified in the Schedule to this Order are hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 1 of the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993.

Michael Howard

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

25th May 1994

Article 2

SCHEDULE Prescribed Prosecuting Authority

• The Director of the Serious Fraud Office and any person designated under section 1(7) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987(2)

• The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

• The Commissioners of Customs and Excise

• The Secretary of State for Social Security

• The Post Office

• The Commissioners of Inland Revenue

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order prescribes prosecuting authorities for the purposes of section 1 of the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993. That section provides that in the case of certain defendants prosecuted by or on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions or a prescribed prosecuting authority an appeal may be made to a judge of the Crown Court against the granting of bail by a magistrates' court.

(1)

1993 c. 26.

(2)

1987 c. 38.