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Appointed day and saving provision – first diet procedure
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4.—(1) 31st July 2017 is the day appointed for the coming into force of subsections (3) and (4) of section 81 of the 2016 Act (first diets).
(2) Despite paragraph (1), until 27th August 2017 the amendments to the 1995 Act made by those subsections do not apply for the purposes of—
(a)any first diet at which the accused is called on to appear by a relevant notice if that notice also calls on the accused to appear at a trial diet; and
(b)subject to article 6, the adjournment, postponement or any other alteration of such a first diet (including the adjournment, postponement or alteration of any previously adjourned, postponed or altered diet).
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