{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-defence-service-representation-orders-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-2006/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-defence-service-representation-orders-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-2006/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110747402",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Representation Orders and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-defence-service-representation-orders-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Consequential amendments",
  "text": "(1) Section 50 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (early administrative hearings) is amended as follows.\n(2) For subsection (2) substitute—\n“(2) At a hearing conducted by a single justice under this section the accused shall be asked whether he wishes to be granted a right to representation funded by the Legal Services Commission as part of the Criminal Defence Service.\n(2A) Where the accused wishes to be granted such a right, the Legal Services Commission shall decide whether or not to grant him that right.”\n(3) After subsection (4) insert—\n“(4A) A hearing conducted by a single justice under this section may be—\n(a) adjourned to enable the decision mentioned in subsection (2A) above to be taken, and\n(b) subsequently resumed by a single justice.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c.37. Section 50(2) was amended by paragraphs 53 and 54 of Schedule 4 to the Access to Justice Act 1999."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110747402/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:54.183707+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."
}