{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prosecution-of-offences-custody-time-limits-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prosecution-of-offences-custody-time-limits-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/299",
  "legislation_title": "The Prosecution of Offences (Custody Time Limits) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prosecution-of-offences-custody-time-limits-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“the 1980 Act” means the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980;\n“the 1985 Act” means the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985.\n(2) In these Regulations, a reference to a person’s first appearance in relation to proceedings in a magistrates' court for an offence is—\n(a) in a case where that person has made an application under section 43B of the 1980 Act, a reference to the time when he appears before the court on the hearing of that application;\n(b) in a case where that person appears or is brought before the court in pursuance of section 5B of the Bail Act 1976 and the decision which is to be, or has been, reconsidered under that section is the decision of a constable, a reference to the time when he so appears or is brought; and\n(c) in any other case, a reference to the time when first he appears or is brought before the court on an information charging him with that offence.\n(3) In these Regulations any reference to the start of the trial shall be construed in accordance with section 22(11A) and (11B) of the 1985 Act.\n(4) Any maximum period set by these Regulations during which a person may be in the custody of a court does not include the day on which the custody commenced.\n(5) A custody time limit which would, apart from this paragraph, expire on any of the days to which this paragraph applies shall be treated as expiring on the next preceding day which is not one of those days.\nThe days to which this paragraph applies are Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday and any day which under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 is a bank holiday in England and Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(2) substituted (10.4.1995) by The Prosecution of Offences (Custody Time Limits) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/555), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 2(3) substituted (1.10.1996) by Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c. 25), s. 71(4)(a)(6) (with s. 71(5)); S.I. 1996/2343, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.4.1987, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/299/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:31:55.081808+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."
}