Section 1 Right of reply at trials on indictment.

the prosecution shall not be entitled to the right of reply on the ground only that the Attorney General or the Solicitor General appears for the Crown at the trial; and

the time at which the prosecution is entitled to exercise that right shall, notwithstanding anything in section 2 of the M1Criminal Procedure Act 1865, be after the close of the evidence for the defence and before the closing speech (if any) by or on behalf of the accused.