ORDER 68C

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 2021

I. Preliminary

1.(1) In this Order:-

the “2021 Act” means the Criminal Procedure Act 2021;

“preliminary trial hearing” has the same meaning as in section 6(1) of the 2021 Act;

unless the context requires otherwise, expressions defined in section 2 and section 3(1) of the 2021 Act have the same meanings in this Order as are assigned to them by section 2 or, as the case may be, section 3(1) of the 2021 Act.

II. Application for preliminary trial hearing

2.(1) Where either the accused or the prosecution intends to apply to the Court to direct the holding of a preliminary trial hearing as regards the trial of an indictable offence to which section 4 of the 2021 Act applies, the moving party shall notify the Court and the other party at the first available opportunity and, subject to any direction of the Court in that regard, shall serve and file in the Office particulars of the application, which may be in the Form 56 in the Schedule of Forms, (hereafter in this Order referred to as the “PTH Notice”) on the prosecutor or, as the case may be, the accused (or, where the accused is represented by a solicitor, the solicitor for the accused), at the time and in the manner directed or notified by the Court for such applications or, as the case may be, for such applications of the kind concerned.