Article 12 Transitional provisions

Where, in relation to an offence, section 5(7) of the Act does not apply, by virtue of the criminal investigation into the offence having begun before the day appointed for the purposes of Part I of the Act, there shall be substituted for the words “section 5(7) of the Act” in rule 8(2)(a), the words “section 11 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967^f1”.

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f1: 1967 c. 80; section 11 was amended by the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), section 154 and Schedule 7, paragraph 64; section 11 was further amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (c. 38), Schedule 2, paragraph 2, and by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33), Schedule 9, paragraphs 6(2) and (7); by the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c. 25), section 74, section 11 shall cease in relation to alleged offences into which no criminal investigation, within the meaning of section 1(4) of that Act of 1996, has begun before the day appointed under section 1(5) of that Act of 1996.