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14c. 63 (7) After section 29 (5) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
 * “(5A) Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (1) above shall have effect in their application to a person who has not attained the age of eighteen as if the references to a remand in custody and to being remanded, committed or kept in custody included references to being committed under section 23 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 to the care of a local authority or to a remand centre.”;

(8) In section 30(2) (scope of legal aid before magistrates’ courts) there shall be added at the end the words “and legal aid ordered to be given for the purpose of so much of any proceedings before a magistrates’ court as relates to the grant of bail shall not include representation by counsel.”

(9) In section 30(12) (interpretation), for the words “In section 28 above” there shall be inserted the words “In sections 28 and 29 above”.

12.—(1) Schedule 2 to this Act (which contains consequential and minor amendments of enactments) shall have effect.

(2) The enactments specified in Schedule 3 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(3) The transitional provisions contained in Schedule 4 to this Act shall have effect.

13.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Bail Act 1976.

(2) This Act (except this section) shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order in a statutory instrument appoint.

(3) Section 1 of this Act applies to bail grantable by the Courts-Martial Appeal Court when sitting outside England and Wales and accordingly section 6 of this Act applies to a failure outside England and Wales by a person granted bail by that Court to surrender to custody.

(4) Except as provided by subsection (3) above and with the exception of so much of section 8 as relates to entering into recognizances in Scotland and paragraphs 31 and 46 of Schedule 2 to this Act, this Act does not extend beyond England and Wales.