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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11E+WAmendment of enactments relating to bail

Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)E+W

2E+WIn section 2(2) (definitions)—

(a)insert the following definitions at the appropriate places—

custodial sentence” means a sentence or order mentioned in section 76(1) of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 or any corresponding sentence or order imposed or made under any earlier enactment,;

imprisonable offence” means an offence punishable in the case of an adult with imprisonment,;

sexual offence” means an offence specified in Part 2 of Schedule 15 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003,;

violent offence” means murder or an offence specified in Part 1 of Schedule 15 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003,, and

(b)in the definition of “young person” for “seventeen” substitute “ eighteen ”.