C1Part I Disclosure
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Modifications etc. (not altering text)
The main provisions
10 Prosecutor’s failure to observe time limits.
1
This section applies if the prosecutor—
a
purports to act under section 3 after the end of the period which, by virtue of section 12, is the relevant period for section 3, or
b
purports to act under section 7 after the end of the period which, by virtue of section 12, is the relevant period for section 7.
2
Subject to subsection (3), the failure to act during the period concerned does not on its own constitute grounds for staying the proceedings for abuse of process.
3
Subsection (2) does not prevent the failure constituting such grounds if it involves such delay by the prosecutor that the accused is denied a fair trial.
Pt I: Power to modify conferred (27.7.1999 for specified purposes and otherwise (4.9.2000) by 1999 c. 23, s. 38(7)(a) (with s. 63(2), Sch. 7 paras. 3(3), 4, 5(2)); S.I. 2000/2091, art. 2(c)
Pt. I: Power to modify conferred (1.12.2003) by S.I. 1999/2789 (N.I. 8), art. 26(7); S.R. 2003/476, art. 4(a)