SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE 4

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F1

Sch. 1- 4 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 40, s. 4, 6, Sch. 5 (with Sch. 3 Pt. II, paras. 1, 16, 17)

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Section 108 (certain objections competent only at first diet) shall be amended as follows—

a

for the words “unless the same be stated to the sheriff at the first diet before the accused is called upon to plead” there shall be substituted the words “except by leave of the court on cause shown, unless his intention to raise the objection is stated in a notice under section 76(1)(a) of this Act”.,

b

the words of section 108 as amended by sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph shall be subsection (1) of that section and after that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—

2

Except by leave of the court on cause shown—

a

no matter relating to the competency or relevancy of the indictment shall be raised ;

b

no plea in bar of trial shall be submitted ; and

c

no application for separation or conjunction of charges or trials shall be submitted,

unless the intention to do so has been stated in a notice under section 76(1) of this Act.