{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998/section-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/37",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Disorder Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Date of first court appearance in bail cases.",
  "text": "(1) In subsection (3) of section 47 of the 1984 Act (bail after arrest), for the words “subsection (4)” there shall be substituted the words “ subsections (3A) and (4) ”.\n(2) After that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(3A) Where a custody officer grants bail to a person subject to a duty to appear before a magistrates’ court, he shall appoint for the appearance—\n(a) a date which is not later than the first sitting of the court after the person is charged with the offence; or\n(b) where he is informed by the clerk to the justices for the relevant petty sessions area that the appearance cannot be accommodated until a later date, that later date.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 46 wholly in force at 1.11.1999; S. 46 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 121; S. 46 in force at 30.9.1998 in the areas specified in Sch. 2 of the said S.I. by S.I. 1998/2327, art. 3(2), Sch. 2; S. 46 in force at 1.11.1999 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 1999/2976, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/37/section/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:25.156552+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."
}