Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 1981

At the beginning of subsection (2) of section 8 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (application for lifting restrictions on reports of committal proceedings) there shall be inserted the words “Subject to subsection (2A) below”.

After that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsections—

In relation to any time before the coming into force of the said Act of 1980, the same amendments as are made by subsections (1) and (2) above in section 8 of that Act shall be made in section 3 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 except that the word “defendants” shall be substituted for the word “accused” wherever it occurs.

The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply in relation to committal proceedings begun before the commencement of this Act.

This Act may be cited as the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 1981.

This Act shall come into force at the expiration of a period of three months beginning with the date on which it is passed.

This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.