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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/767",
  "legislation_title": "The Prosecution of Offences (Custody Time Limits) (Amendment) Regulations 1989",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulation 3 of the Prosecution of Offences (Custody Time Limits) Regulations 1987 (the “principal regulations”) applies the regulations to proceedings instituted in certain counties; and regulation 5 provides for custody time limits in the Crown Court in such proceedings at specified Crown Court centres. Those regulations are amended so as to include the remainder of the Northern circuit, the whole of the North Eastern circuit, the greater part of the Midland and Oxford circuit and certain Crown Court centres in the South Eastern circuit. The entry relating to Bodmin, which has been replaced as a Crown Court centre by Truro, is removed.\nRegulation 4 is amended so as to reduce the custody time limit in magistrates' courts in relation to proceedings instituted in the West Midlands from 84 days to 70 days, except in the case of the Birmingham petty sessions area.\nThe remaining provisions of the Regulations apply the principal regulations to cases where proceedings are transferred to the Crown Court in pursuance of a notice of transfer given under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (c. 38) and rectify a minor omission in regulation 7(2) of the principal regulations.\nBy virtue of regulation 1(3), the Regulations come into force on 1st June 1989.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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