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4. In section 92, for “Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act 1954” substitute “Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975”. CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 1967 (c. 80) 1. Section 3 (restrictions on reports of committal proceedings) shall be amended as follows—
 * (a) in subsection (1), for “subsections (2) and (3)” substitute “subsections (2), (3) and (8)”;
 * (b) in subsection (3) (under which it is not unlawful to report, as part of a report of a summary trial, so much of any committal proceedings as precedes a determination by the court to proceed to try the case summarily) for the words from “section 18” to “1969” substitute “section 25(3) or (7) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 (power to change from committal proceedings to summary trial)”;
 * (c) after subsection (7) add—
 * “(8) For the purposes of this section committal proceedings shall, in relation to an information charging an indictable offence, be deemed to include any proceedings in the magistrates’ court before the court proceeds to inquire into the information as examining justices; but where a magistrates’ court which has begun to try an information summarily discontinues the summary trial in pursuance of section 25(2) or (6) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 and proceeds to inquire into the information as examining justices, that circumstance shall not make it unlawful under this section for a report of any proceedings on the information which was published or broadcast before the court determined to proceed as aforesaid to have been so published or broadcast.”.

2. In section 22, as amended by paragraph 37 of Schedule 2 to the Bail Act 1976, (extension of power of High Court to grant, or vary conditions of, bail)—
 * (a) in subsections (1) and (2) for “inferior court” substitute “magistrates’ court”; and
 * (b) in subsection (4) omit “‘inferior court’ means a magistrates’ court or a coroner and”.

3. In section 23(2) (requirements as to bringing before a justice of the peace or court a person arrested after admission to bail), after paragraph (b) insert—
 * “In reckoning for the purposes of this subsection any period of twenty-four hours, no account shall be taken of Christmas Day, Good Friday or any Sunday.”

4. (1) Section 24 (process for minor offences) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (3) (under which proceedings are void if the defendant makes a statutory declaration that he did not know of the proceedings until a date after the trial of the information was