Part 2: Prevention, investigation and prosecution of crime Chapter 4: Other provisions Section 45 and Schedule 4: Pre-charge bail
This section introduces Schedule 4 which amends provisions in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ("PACE"), the Bail Act 1976 and the Criminal Justice Act 2003 relating to pre-charge bail. The amendments relate to the granting of pre-charge bail and the factors to be taken into account when doing so. These amendments also introduce a duty to seek views of alleged victims regarding the imposition or variation of pre-charge bail conditions and the nature of these conditions. Section 45 and Schedule 4 also includes amendments to the time limits and levels of authorisation of pre-charge bail and the effect on the maximum detention period under Part 4 of PACE where a person is arrested for breach of bail conditions or failure to answer bail, as well as introducing a power for the College of Policing to issue statutory guidance relating to pre-charge bail.
	Subsection (3) provides that the changes made by Schedule 4 only apply to persons arrested after the commencement of these provisions. Where a person is arrested under section 46A of PACE, for failure to answer bail, these amendments only apply to that person if they were arrested after the commencement of these provisions for the offence for which they were originally released on bail. These amendments also only apply to a person arrested under section 24A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (failure to comply with conditional caution) if the person was arrested after the commencement of these amendments for the offence in respect of which the caution was given.