SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 36Further minor and consequential amendments

Part 2Charging etc

Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45)

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In section 39 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 (service of summons and citation throughout United Kingdom) for subsection (1) there is substituted—

1

The following documents, namely—

a

a summons requiring a person charged with an offence to appear before a court in England or Wales,

b

a written charge (within the meaning of section 29 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003) charging a person with an offence,

c

a requisition (within the meaning of that section) requiring a person charged with an offence to appear before a court in England or Wales, and

d

any other document which, by virtue of any enactment, may or must be served on a person with, or at the same time as, a document mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above,

may, in such manner as may be prescribed by rules of court, be served on him in Scotland or Northern Ireland.