10.This section modifies the 1995 Act to make provision permitting the use of electronic signatures on documents in criminal proceedings. This section further enables documents to be transmitted between parties electronically, and to be sent to solicitors acting on an individual’s behalf.
11.Subsection (2) inserts four new sections into the 1995 Act before section 304 (and the Part heading immediately preceding it) – i.e. immediately after section 303B.
12.Subsection (3) repeals subsections (6C) to (6E) of section 66, section 72G and section 148D of the 1995 Act. Those provisions make more limited provision about the service of certain documents on an accused person via their solicitor and are therefore superseded by the more general provision made by this section.
Interpretation Part 1: Criminal Justice Modernisation Section 1 – Electronic signatures and alternative methods of sending documents