3Validation of certain summonses and warrants

3 Validation of certain summonses and warrants

(1)  In this section –

commencement day means the day on which this Act commences.

(2)  A summons or warrant that was, on a day (the relevant day) that occurred before the commencement day, purportedly issued under section 41 of the Justices Act 1959 to a person is as valid, and is to be taken to have always been as valid, as the summons or warrant would have been if, immediately before the relevant day, the amendments to that section made by this Act had been in effect.