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Section 50: Early administrative hearings.

Crime and Disorder Act 1998 · 1998 c. 37View on legislation.gov.uk

Part III: Criminal justice system

Where a person (“the accused”) has been charged with an offence at a police station, the magistrates’ court before whom he appears or is brought for the first time in relation to the charge may, ..., consist of a single justice.

At a hearing conducted by a single justice under this section —

the accused shall be asked whether he wishes to be provided with representation for the purposes of the proceedings under Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, and
if he indicates that he does, the necessary arrangements must be made for him to apply for it and, where appropriate, obtain it.

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At such a hearing the single justice—

may exercise, subject to subsection (2) above, such of his powers as a single justice as he thinks fit; and
on adjourning the hearing, may remand the accused in custody or on bail.

Where the powers of a single justice are exercised by a person authorised under section 67B(2) of the Courts Act 2003, nothing in subsection (3)(b) above authorises the person to remand the accused in custody or, without the consent of the prosecutor and the accused, to remand the accused on bail on conditions other than those (if any) previously imposed.

A hearing conducted by a single justice under this section may be—

adjourned to enable the decision mentioned in subsection (2A) above to be taken, and
subsequently resumed by a single justice.

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