SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13Extradition

Part 2Amendments to other Acts

Powers of High Court in relation to bail decisions by magistrates' court etc

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1

Section 22 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80) (power of High Court to grant, or vary conditions of, bail) is amended as follows.

2

After subsection (1) (application to grant bail etc where case stated to High Court) there is inserted—

1A

Where a magistrates' court withholds bail in extradition proceedings or imposes conditions in granting bail in extradition proceedings, the High Court may grant bail or vary the conditions.

3

In subsection (4) (which defines certain terms used in section 22), after “ “bail in criminal proceedings”” there is inserted “ , “extradition proceedings” .