Clause 13 - Appeal to Crown Court
Criminal Justice Bill
9:30 pm
Mr Hilary Benn (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Leeds Central, Labour)
These are technical amendments to tidy up the clause. Subsection (1) defines the circumstances under which an appeal will lie to the Crown court against a condition of bail imposed by a magistrates court. It does so by reference to bail granted on the adjournment of a case and lists the provisions under which a case may be so adjourned. Amendment No. 39 adds to that list a reference to an adjournment under a new provision, section 24C,
which appears in schedule 3, which we shall debate later. The amendment is a tidying up amendment in that it makes the clause consistent with what is already in schedule 3. Amendments Nos. 45 and 46 do the same in respect of the Supreme Court Act 1981.
Amendment agreed to.