6 Written procedure for indicating plea and determining mode of trial: adults
Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (2022 c 35) | Legislation

Offences triable either way: determining the mode of trial

6  Written procedure for indicating plea and determining mode of trial: adults

(1)     The Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 is amended as follows.

(2)     After section 17 insert—

“17ZA Option to indicate plea in writing

(1)     Subsection (3) has effect where a person is charged with an offence triable either way and—

(a)     has attained the age of 18 years when charged, or

(b)     attains the age of 18 years after being charged without first having—

(i)     appeared in court to answer the charge, or

(ii)     given, or failed to give, a written indication of plea within the meaning given by section 24ZA(11).

(2)     But Criminal Procedure Rules may make provision about circumstances in which subsection (3) does not have effect.

(3)     A magistrates' court must, in writing—

(a)     provide the accused with the information referred to in subsection (4), and

(b)     ask the accused—

(i)     whether the accused wishes to give a written indication of plea, and

(ii)     if the accused wishes to do so, whether (if the offence were to proceed to trial) the accused would plead guilty or not guilty.

(4)     The information is—

(a)

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