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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-law-act-1977-commencement-no-5-order-1978/schedule",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-law-act-1977-commencement-no-5-order-1978/schedule.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/712",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Law Act 1977 (Commencement No. 5) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-law-act-1977-commencement-no-5-order-1978",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE CRIMINAL LAW ACT 1977",
  "text": "COMING INTO FORCE ON 17TH JULY 1978\nProvisions of the Act\nSubject matter of provisions\nSection 14.\nClassification of offences.\nSections 15 to 17.\nAllocation of offences to classes as regards mode of trial.\nSection 18.\nLimitation of time.\nSections 19 to 26.\nProcedure for determining mode of trial of offences triable either way.\nSections 27 to 32 (but not section 31(1) which come into force on 8th September 1977).\nPenalties.\nSections 34 to 37.\nYoung offenders.\nSection 41.\nTransfer of remand hearings.\nSection 42.\nRemand of accused already in custody.\nSection 45.\nCases where magistrates' court may remit offender to another such court for sentence.\nSection 46.\nCommittal for sentence for offences tried summarily.\nSection 58.\nProceedings involving persons under 17: increase of certain pecuniary limits.\nSection 61.\nPower to alter sums specified in certain provisions.\nSection 64.\nMeaning of “indictable offence”, “summary offence” and “offence triable either way” in England and Wales.\nSchedule 1.\nOffences made triable only summarily, and related amendments.\nSchedule 2.\nOffences triable either way instead of only on indictment.\nSchedule 3.\nOffences triable either way by virtue of section 16(1) or (2).\nSchedule 4.\nOffences for which the value involved is relevant to the mode of trial.\nSchedule 5.\nAlteration of penalties on summary conviction of certain offences triable either way.\nSchedule 8.\nTransfer of remand hearings.\nSo much of Schedule 12 as has not already come into force\nMinor and consequential amendments.\nSo much of Schedule 13 as is specified in the Appendix hereto.\nRepeals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The provisions of Schedule 12 which have not already come into force are those relating to:—"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Night Poaching Act 1828."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The Accessories and Abettors Act 1861."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The Children Act 1948."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "The Representation of the People Act 1949."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "The Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 (paragraphs 1 to 6, 8, 9, 10 and 12)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "The Sexual Offences Act 1956 (paragraph 2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "The Criminal Law Act 1967."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "The Criminal Justice Act 1967 (paragraphs 1 and 6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "The Firearms Act 1968."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "The Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (paragraphs 1 and 3 to 6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "The Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (paragraph 3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:35:16.529886+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."
}