SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3 Criminal Defence Service: right to representation
Grant of right by commission
2A
1
Regulations may—
a
provide that the Commission shall have power to grant rights to representation in respect of criminal proceedings of a prescribed description;
b
provide that the Commission shall, except in such circumstances as may be prescribed, have power to withdraw any rights to representation granted in respect of proceedings of a description prescribed under paragraph (a).
2
In sub-paragraph (1)(a), the reference to criminal proceedings does not include proceedings prescribed under section 12(2)(g).
3
Regulations under sub-paragraph (1) may make such consequential amendment or repeal of any enactment, including an enactment contained in subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978), as the Lord Chancellor may consider appropriate.