{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1982/schedule-9/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1982/schedule-9/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/48",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1982",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following subsections shall be inserted after the said subsection (1)—\n“(1A) Where—\n(a) on adjourning a case under section 5, 10(1) or 18(4)above the court proposes to remand or further remand a person in custody; and\n(b) he is before the court; and\n(c) he has attained the age of 17; and\n(d) he is legally represented in that court,\nit shall be the duty of the court—\n(i) to explain the effect of subsections (3A) and (3B) below to him in ordinary language; and\n(ii) to inform him in ordinary language that, notwithstanding the procedure for a remand without his being brought before a court, he would be brought before a court for the hearing and determination of at least every fourth application for his remand, and of every application for his remand heard at a time when it appeared to the court that he had no solicitor acting for him in the case.\n(1B) For the purposes of subsection (1A) above a person is to be treated as legally represented in a court if, but only if, he has the assistance of counsel or a solicitor to represent him in the proceedings in that court.\n(1C) After explaining to an accused as provided by sub-section (1A) above the court shall ask him whether he consents to the hearing and determination of such applications in his absence.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/48/schedule/9/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:50.097321+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."
}