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Amendments made: No. 211, in page 21, leave out lines
38 and 39 and insert—
'(a) a magistrates' court, in deciding whether to grant an application for dismissal made by the accused under section 6 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (application for dismissal of charge in course of proceedings with a view to transfer for trial);
( ) the court, in determining whether there is a case to answer; and.'
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No. 212, in page 22, line 10, at end insert—
`( ) In relation to any time before the commencement of section 36 of this Act, this section shall have effect as if the reference in subsection (2)(a) to the grant of an application for dismissal was a reference to the committal of the accused for trial.'.—[Mr. Maclean.]