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(1)Where an adult appears or is brought before a magistrates’ court (“the court”) charged with an offence triable only on indictment (“the indictable-only offence”), the court shall send him forthwith to the Crown Court for trial—
(a)for that offence, and
(b)for any either-way or summary offence with which he is charged which fulfils the requisite conditions (as set out in subsection (11) below).
(2)Where an adult who has been sent for trial under subsection (1) above subsequently appears or is brought before a magistrates’ court charged with an either-way or summary offence which fulfils the requisite conditions, the court may send him forthwith to the Crown Court for trial for the either-way or summary offence.
(3)Where—
(a)the court sends an adult for trial under subsection (1) above;
(b)another adult appears or is brought before the court on the same or a subsequent occasion charged jointly with him with an either-way offence; and
(c)that offence appears to the court to be related to the indictable-only offence,
the court shall where it is the same occasion, and may where it is a subsequent occasion, send the other adult forthwith to the Crown Court for trial for the either-way offence.
(4)Where a court sends an adult for trial under subsection (3) above, it shall at the same time send him to the Crown Court for trial for any either-way or summary offence with which he is charged which fulfils the requisite conditions.
(5)Where—
(a)the court sends an adult for trial under subsection (1) or (3) above; and
(b)a child or young person appears or is brought before the court on the same or a subsequent occasion charged jointly with the adult with an indictable offence for which the adult is sent for trial,
the court shall, if it considers it necessary in the interests of justice to do so, send the child or young person forthwith to the Crown Court for trial for the indictable offence.
(6)Where a court sends a child or young person for trial under subsection (5) above, it may at the same time send him to the Crown Court for trial for any either-way or summary offence with which he is charged which fulfils the requisite conditions.
(7)The court shall specify in a notice the offence or offences for which a person is sent for trial under this section and the place at which he is to be tried; and a copy of the notice shall be served on the accused and given to the Crown Court sitting at that place.
(8)In a case where there is more than one indictable-only offence and the court includes an either-way or a summary offence in the notice under subsection (7) above, the court shall specify in that notice the indictable-only offence to which the either-way offence or, as the case may be, the summary offence appears to the court to be related.
(9)The trial of the information charging any summary offence for which a person is sent for trial under this section shall be treated as if the court had adjourned it under section 10 of the 1980 Act and had not fixed the time and place for its resumption.
(10)In selecting the place of trial for the purpose of subsection (7) above, the court shall have regard to—
(a)the convenience of the defence, the prosecution and the witnesses;
(b)the desirability of expediting the trial; and
(c)any direction given by or on behalf of the Lord Chief Justice with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor under section 75(1) of the M1Supreme Court Act 1981.
(11)An offence fulfils the requisite conditions if—
(a)it appears to the court to be related to the indictable-only offence; and
(b)in the case of a summary offence, it is punishable with imprisonment or involves obligatory or discretionary disqualification from driving.
(12)For the purposes of this section—
(a)“adult” means a person aged 18 or over, and references to an adult include references to a corporation;
(b)“either-way offence” means an offence which, if committed by an adult, is triable either on indictment or summarily;
(c)an either-way offence is related to an indictable-only offence if the charge for the either-way offence could be joined in the same indictment as the charge for the indictable-only offence;
(d)a summary offence is related to an indictable-only offence if it arises out of circumstances which are the same as or connected with those giving rise to the indictable-only offence.
Commencement Information
I1 S. 51 wholly in force; S. 51 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 121; S. 51 in force at 4.1.1999 for the purpose of sending any person for trial under s. 51 from any area specified in Sch. 2 of the said S.I. by S.I. 1998/2327, art. 4(2); s. 51 in force at 15.1.2001 to the extent that it is not already in force by S.I. 2000/3283, art. 2 (with transitional provisions in art. 3)
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