Regulation 2

The Prosecution of Offences (Custody Time Limits) Regulations 1987^f1 shall have effect in any area from which and any place to which a person is sent for trial under section 51 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 as if they were amended as follows.

In regulation 5, after paragraph (6A) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

“(6B)

Where an accused is sent for trial under section 51 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, the maximum period of custody between the accused being sent to the Crown Court by a magistrates' court for an offence and the start of the trial in relation to it, shall be–

(a)

in the case of an accused who first appears in a magistrates' court on or after 4th January 1999, 182 days less any period, or the aggregate of any periods, during which the accused has, since that first appearance for the offence, been in the custody of that court; and

(b)

in the case of an accused who first appeared in a magistrates' court before 4th January 1999, either–

(i)

the period described in sub-paragraph (a) above; or

(ii)

112 days,

whichever is the longer period.”.