§ Baroness TrumpingtonMy Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Elton I beg to introduce a Bill to provide for the establishment of a Crown Prosecution Service for England and Wales; to make provision as to costs in criminal cases; to provide for the reference to the Court of Appeal of certain Crown Court sentences and for the imposition of time limits in relation to preliminary stages of criminal proceedings; to amend Section 42 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 and Section 3 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969; to make provision with respect to consents to prosecutions; to repeal Section 9 of the Perjury Act 1911; and for connected purposes. I beg to move that this Bill be now read a first time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read a first time.—(Baroness Trumpington.)
§ On Question, Bill read a first time, and to be printed.