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Criminal Justice Act 2003

Section 30:  Further provision about new method

174.This section makes further provisions about the new method of instituting proceedings as described in section 29.

175.Subsection (1) provides that rules of court may be made as necessary especially in relation to the form, content, recording, authentication and service of written charges or requisitions.

176.Subsection (4) provides that nothing in section 29 affects the power of a person who is not a public prosecutor to lay an information for the purpose of obtaining the issue of a summons under section 1 of the Magistrates' Courts Act, or the power to charge a person whilst he or she is in custody.

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