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Transfer of cases to Crown CourtSection 5Table of ContentsContentMore ResourcesPrevious: ProvisionNext: ProvisionPlain ViewPrint Options
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(3)If a magistrates’ court has remanded a person to whom a notice of transfer relates in custody, it shall have power, subject to section 4 of the M2Bail Act 1976 and regulations under section 22 of the M3Prosecution of Offences Act 1985—
(4)If the conditions specified in subsection (5) below are satisfied, a court may exercise the powers conferred by subsection (3) above [F1in relation to a person charged without his]being brought before it in any case in which by virtue of section 128(3A) of the M4Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 it would have power further to remand him on an adjournment such as is mentioned in that subsection.
(a)that the person [F2in question]has given his written consent to the powers conferred by subsection (3) above being exercised without his being brought before the court; and
(6)Where notice of transfer is given after [F3a person to whom it relates]has been remanded on bail to appear before [F4a magistrates’ court]on an appointed day, the requirement that he shall so appear shall cease on the giving of the notice, unless the notice states that it is to continue.
(7)Where the requirement that a person [F5to whom the notice of transfer relates]shall appear before [F6a magistrates’ court]ceases by virtue of subsection (6) above, it shall be his duty to appear before the Crown Court at the place specified by the notice of transfer as the proposed place of trial or at any place substituted for it by a direction under section 76 of the M5Supreme Court Act 1981.
[F7(7A)If the notice states that the requirement is to continue, when a person to whom the notice relates appears before the magistrates’ court, the court shall have—
(b)power to enlarge, in the surety’s absence, a recognizance conditioned in accordance with section 128(4)(a) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 so that the surety is bound to secure that the person charged appears also before the Crown Court.]
(8)For the purposes of the M6Criminal Procedure (Attendance of Witnesses) Act 1965—
(b)a person [F8indicated in the notice of transfer as a proposed witness;]shall be treated as a person who has been examined by the court.
(a)shall by regulations make provision requiring the giving of a copy of a notice of transfer, together with [F9copies of the documents containing the evidence (including oral evidence)] on which any charge to which it relates is based—
(i)to [F10any person to whom the notice of transfer relates]; and
(ii)to the Crown Court sitting at the [F11place specified by the notice of transfer as the]proposed place of trial; and
[F12(9A)Regulations under subsection (9)(a) above may provide that there shall be no requirement for copies of documents to accompany the copy of the notice of transfer if they are referred to, in documents sent with the notice of transfer, as having already been supplied.]
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