SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 36Further minor and consequential amendments

Part 4Trials on indictment without a jury

Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54)

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1

Section 76 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 (committal for trial: alteration of place of trial) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (2A) for “the jury are sworn” there is substituted “ the time when the jury are sworn ”

3

After subsection (2A) there is inserted—

2B

The reference in subsection (2A) to the time when the jury are sworn includes the time when the jury would be sworn but for the making of an order under Part 7 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.