Criminal Justice Act 1948

Part IIIE+W Supplemental

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76 Rules and orders.E+W

(1)Any power of the Secretary of State to make rules under this Act shall be exercised by statutory instrument.

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(3)Any power to make Orders in Council under this Act, and any power of the Secretary of State to make orders under this Act, shall include power to revoke or vary any such Order in Council or order by a subsequent Order in Council or order.

77 Expenses and grants payable out of moneys provided by Parliament.E+W

(1)Any expenses of the Secretary of State under this Act . . . F5

shall, to such amount as may be sanctioned by the Treasury, be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(2)—(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6

(6)There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament any sums by which any grants under section one hundred and four of the M1Children and Young Persons Act 1933 towards the expenses of councils of counties and county boroughs are increased by reason of any provisions of this Act.

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F778 Transitory provisions.E+W

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The enactments mentioned in the first column of the Ninth Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in the second column of that Schedule (being amendments consequential upon the foregoing provisions of this Act or relating to matters of minor detail).

80 Interpretation.E+W

(1)In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meaning hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—

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• [F9 “ Approved school ” means a school approved under section seventy–nine of the M2 Children and Young Persons Act 1933; ]

• [F10 “ Court ” does not include a court–martial; ]

• [F11 “ Court of summary jurisdiction ” includes examining justices within the meaning of the M3 Criminal Justice Act 1925; ]

• “Detention centre” has the meaning assigned to it by section forty–eight of this Act;

• “Enactment” includes an enactment contained in a local Act and any order, regulation or other instrument having effect by virtue of an Act;

• “England” includes Wales;

• “Impose imprisonment” means pass a sentence of imprisonment or commit to prison in default of payment of any sum of money or for failing to do or abstain from doing anything required to be done or left undone;

• “Local authority” means, in relation to any probation area, any authority out of whose funds the salary of the clerk to the justices for a [F12petty sessions area] or place contained in the probation area is paid;

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• “Remand centre” has the meaning assigned to it by section forty–eight of this Act

• [F14 “ Remand home ” means premises established or used by the council of a county or county borough under the provisions of section seventy–seven of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933; ]

• “Sentence” includes an order for detention in a detention centre, . . . F15, but does not include a committal in default of payment of any sum of money or failing to do or abstain from doing anything required to be done or left undone;

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(2)Any reference in this Act to a previous sentence of imprisonment shall be construed as including a reference to a previous sentence of penal servitude; any such reference to a previous sentence of Borstal training shall be construed as including a reference to a previous sentence of detention in a Borstal institution; and any such reference to a previous conviction or sentence shall be construed as a reference to a previous conviction by a court in any part of Great Britain and to a previous sentence passed by any such court.

(3)Where the age of any person at any time is material for the purposes of any provision of this Act, or of any Order in Council made thereunder, regulating the powers of a court, his age at the material time shall be deemed to be or to have been that which appears to the court after considering any available evidence to be or to have been his age at that time.

(4)References in this Act to an offence punishable with imprisonment shall be construed, in relation to any offender, without regard to any prohibition or restriction imposed by or under [F17any enactment], upon the imprisonment of offenders of his age, but shall not be construed as including an offence for which the court is required to impose a sentence of imprisonment for life.

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(6)Where any provision of this Act empowers a court on conviction of an offender to pass a sentence or make an order in lieu of dealing with him in any other manner, the said provision shall not be construed as taking away any power of the court to order the offender to pay costs, . . . F19 or compensation.

(7)References in this Act to any enactment shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as references to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment including this Act.

81 Application to Scotland.E+W

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F20 this Act shall not extend to Scotland.

82†Application to Northern Ireland.E+W

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F21 this Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

83 Short title, commencement and repeals.E+W

(1)This Act may be cited as the Criminal Justice Act 1948.

(2), (3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F22