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  "heading": "Assisted person unfit to plead or stand trial",
  "text": "Where in any case a hearing is held to determine the question of whether the assisted person is unfit to plead or to stand trial (a “fitness hearing”)—\n(a) if a trial on indictment is held, or continues, at any time thereafter, the length of the fitness hearing is included in determining the length of the trial for the calculation of the graduated fee in accordance with Part 2 or Part 3;\n(b) if a trial on indictment is not held, or does not continue, thereafter by reason of the assisted person being found unfit to plead or to stand trial, the trial advocate must be paid—\n(i) a graduated fee calculated in accordance with paragraph 4 as appropriate to the combined length of—\n(aa) the fitness hearing; and\n(bb) any hearing under section 4A of the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 (finding that the accused did the act or made the omission charged against him); or\n(ii) a graduated fee calculated in accordance with paragraph 6 as appropriate for representing an assisted person in a cracked trial,\nwhichever the trial advocate elects; and\n(c) if at any time the assisted person pleads guilty to the indictable offence, the trial advocate must be paid either—\n(i) a graduated fee calculated in accordance with paragraph 4 as appropriate to the length of the fitness hearing; or\n(ii) a graduated fee calculated in accordance with paragraph 6 as appropriate for representing an assisted person in a guilty plea,\nwhichever the trial advocate elects.",
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      "text": "1964 c.84, as amended by the Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991 (c.25) and the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c.28)."
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