Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023

Amendment of Criminal Justice Act 2006

73. The Criminal Justice Act 2006 is amended—

(a) in section 16, by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (6):

“(7) A reference in subsection (1) to a person being sent forward for trial shall, in relation to proceedings before a Special Criminal Court, include, where appropriate, a reference to such a person being charged before that court.”,

and

(b) in paragraph 2 of Schedule 3, by the insertion of the following after “section 3 (assault causing harm)”:

“section 3A (non-fatal strangulation or non-fatal suffocation)”.