The Bail (Amendment) Act 1993 (Prescription of Prosecuting Authorities) Order 1994

Made: 25th May 1994

Laid before Parliament: 6th June 1994

Coming into force: 27th June 1994

In exercise of the power conferred upon me by section 1(2)(b) and (11) of the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993[^f00001], I hereby make the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993 (Prescription of Prosecuting Authorities) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 27th June 1994.

2

The prosecuting authorities specified in the Schedule to this Order are hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 1 of the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993.

SCHEDULE — Prescribed Prosecuting Authority

• The Director of the Serious Fraud Office and any person designated under section 1(7) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987[^f00002]

• The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

• The Commissioners of Customs and Excise

• The Secretary of State for Social Security

• The Post Office

• The Commissioners of Inland Revenue

Signed

Michael Howard — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 25th May 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order prescribes prosecuting authorities for the purposes of section 1 of the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993. That section provides that in the case of certain defendants prosecuted by or on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions or a prescribed prosecuting authority an appeal may be made to a judge of the Crown Court against the granting of bail by a magistrates' court.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1993 c. 26.

[^f00002]: 1987 c. 38.