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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/schedule-21/paragraph-74",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/25",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/21/paragraph/74",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the Bail Act 1976—\n(a) in section 4 (general right to bail of accused persons etc), in subsection (7) at the end add “ and section 115(1) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (bail decisions in murder cases to be made by Crown Court judge) ”, and\n(b) in section 7 (liability to arrest for absconding or breaking conditions of bail), after subsection (7) add—\n“(8) In the case of a person charged with murder or with murder and one or more other offences—\n(a) subsections (4) and (5) have effect as if for “justice of the peace” there were substituted “ judge of the Crown Court ”,\n(b) subsection (6) has effect as if for “justice” (in both places) there were substituted “ judge ”, and\n(c) subsection (7) has effect, for the purposes of subsection (4), as if at the end there were added “, Saturday or bank holiday.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 74 in force at 1.2.2010 by S.I. 2010/145, art. 2(2), Sch. para. 25(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/25/schedule/21/paragraph/74",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:44.377194+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}