194Pending proceedings etc

194 Pending proceedings etc

194 Pending proceedings etc

(1) Where any proceedings would, had section 3 (ff) of the District Court (Amendment) Act 1975 not taken effect, have been continued, heard or disposed of after the commencement of that provision in a former Court, those proceedings shall be continued, heard or disposed of, respectively, in the new Court in its criminal and special jurisdiction, sitting at the place at which the former Court was sitting.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) affects the powers of the Supreme Court under section 30 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986.

(3) Where a question of law was submitted by a Chairman of Quarter Sessions to—

(a) the Court of Criminal Appeal under section 5B of the Criminal Appeal Act 1912 and the matter was pending in that Court immediately before the commencement of this subsection, that section, or

(b) the Supreme Court under section 131A of the Justices Act 1902, and the matter was pending in that Court immediately before the commencement of this subsection, that section,

shall apply to and in respect of the matter as if the question had been submitted by a Judge of the new Court.

(4) Any act, matter or thing that could, had section 3 (ff) of the District Court (Amendment) Act 1975 not taken effect, have been done or suffered by a person in the person’s capacity as a Chairman of Quarter Sessions may be done or suffered by the person in the person’s capacity as a Judge of the new Court.

(5) (Repealed)

s 194: Subst 1975 No 1, sec 3 (ff). Am 1984 No 170, Sch 5 (3); 1994 No 32, Sch 3; 1999 No 94, Sch 4.17 [3]; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.85 [8].