SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8 Minor and consequential amendments

Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c.25)

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In subsection (2) of section 1 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (application of Part I of that Act)—

(a)

after paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(cc)

a person is charged with an offence for which he is sent for trial under section 51 (no committal proceedings for indictable-only offences) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998,”; and

(b)

at the end there shall be inserted the words“or

(f)

a bill of indictment charging a person with an indictable offence is preferred under section 22B(3)(a) of the M1Prosecution of Offences Act 1985.”