{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-amendment-act-1993-prescription-of-prosecuting-authorities-amendment-order-2005/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-amendment-act-1993-prescription-of-prosecuting-authorities-amendment-order-2005/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1129",
  "legislation_title": "The Bail (Amendment) Act 1993 (Prescription of Prosecuting Authorities) (Amendment) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-amendment-act-1993-prescription-of-prosecuting-authorities-amendment-order-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993 (Prescription of Prosecuting Authorities) Order 1994 which prescribes prosecuting authorities for the purposes of section 1 of the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993. That section provides that in the case of certain defendants prosecuted by or on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions or a prescribed prosecuting authority an appeal may be made to a judge of the Crown Court against the granting of bail by a magistrates' court. This Order substitutes the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions for the Commissioners of Customs and Excise and the Commissioners of Inland Revenue as a consequence of section 34 of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005. Any person designated under section 37(1) of that Act may exercise any function of the Director.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1129/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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