SCHEDULE 1 Times when Proceedings are Active for Purposes of Section 2
Contempt of Court Act 1981 (1981 c 49) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 1 Times when Proceedings are Active for Purposes of Section 2

Section 2

Preliminary

1

In this Schedule “criminal proceedings†means proceedings against a person in respect of an offence, not being appellate proceedings or proceedings commenced by motion for committal or attachment in England and Wales or Northern Ireland; and “appellate proceedings†means proceedings on appeal from or for the review of the decision of a court in any proceedings.

[1ZA

Proceedings under the Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 16) are criminal proceedings for the purposes of this Schedule.]

[1A

In paragraph 1 the reference to an offence includes a service offence within the meaning of the Armed Forces Act 2006.]

2

Criminal, appellate and other proceedings are active within the meaning of section 2 at the times respectively prescribed by the following paragraphs of this Schedule; and in relation to proceedings in which more than one of the steps described in any of those paragraphs is taken, the reference in that paragraph is a reference to the first of those steps.

Criminal proceedings

3

Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, criminal proceedings are active from the relevant

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