SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11E+WAmendment of enactments relating to bail

Bail Act 1976 (c. 63)E+W

26(1)Paragraph 4 (refusal of bail to defendants who are likely to cause injury or fear of injury) is amended as follows.E+W

(2)The existing words become sub-paragraph (1).

(3)In paragraphs (a) and (b) of that sub-paragraph for “any person other than the defendant”, in both places those words appear, substitute “ an associated person ”.

(4)After that sub-paragraph insert—

(2)In sub-paragraph (1) “associated person” means a person who is associated with the defendant within the meaning of section 62 of the Family Law Act 1996.