{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-insanity-and-unfitness-to-plead-act-1991/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-insanity-and-unfitness-to-plead-act-1991/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/25",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-insanity-and-unfitness-to-plead-act-1991",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions, savings and repeals.",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions, namely—\n(a) sections 1 to 3 above;\n(b) so far as relating to the making of orders or orders made under the 1964 Act, section 5 above and Schedules 1 and 2 to this Act; and\n(c) so far as relating to the repeals in the 1964 Act, the repeal in Schedule 5 to the 1968 Act and the repeal of paragraph 18(b) of Schedule 4 to the 1983 Act, subsection (3) below and Schedule 4 to this Act,\nshall not apply where the accused was arraigned before the commencement of this Act.\n(2) The following provisions, namely—\n(a) section 4 above;\n(b) so far as relating to the making of orders or orders made under the 1968 Act, section 5 above and Schedules 1 and 2 to this Act;\n(c) paragraphs 2 to 4 of Schedule 3 to this Act and, so far as relating to those paragraphs, section 7 above; and\n(d) so far as relating to repeals not mentioned in subsection (1)(c) above, subsection (3) below and Schedule 4 to this Act,\nshall not apply where the hearing of the appeal began before that commencement.\n(3) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 4 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 wholly in force at 1.1.1992 see s. 9(2) and S.I. 1991/2488, art. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/25/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:38:29.295872+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."
}