Criminal Justice Act 2013

Amendment of section 25 of Act of 2010

5. Section 25 of the Act of 2010 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1) by the substitution of the following for paragraph (d):

“(d) subject to subsection (1A), a relevant independent legal practitioner,”,

and

(b) by the insertion, after subsection (1) of the following subsection:

“(1A) A relevant independent legal practitioner shall be a designated person only as respects the carrying out of the services specified in the definition of ‘relevant independent legal practitioner’ in section 24(1).”.