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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991/schedule-12/paragraph-24",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/53",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1991",
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  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Schedule proceedings for an offence shall be regarded as having begun as follows—\n(a) in the case of an offence triable only summarily, when a plea is entered;\n(b) in the case of an offence triable only on indictment, when the magistrates’ court begins to inquire into the offence as examining magistrates;\n(c) in the case of an offence triable either way, when the magistrates’ court determines to proceed with the summary trial of the offence or, as the case may be, to proceed to inquire into the offence as examining justices.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 24 wholly in force at 1.10.1992 see s. 102(2)(3) and S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2."
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      "type": "words repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000"
    },
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      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/43",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000"
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
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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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