Schedules Schedule 2: Criminal Procedure: consequential and related amendments Amendments in connection with section 11
Schedule 3 to the CDA 1998, which deals with the procedure where individuals are sent to the Crown Court for trial, is amended by paragraph 12(2) and (3) so as to remove provisions about circumstances in which an offender can be sent back to a magistrates’ court following changes to an indictment. Those provisions are unnecessary in the light of new general power of the Crown Court to remit such cases (as conferred by section 11).
	Section 122(1) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, which deals with allocation guidelines, is amended by paragraph 13 to reflect that the Crown Court must have regard to any allocation guidelines under new section 46ZA(5)(b) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 and new section 25A(3)(b) of the Sentencing Code.
	Section 26 of the Sentencing Code (provision about remission by Crown Court) is amended by paragraph 14 to reflect the addition of section 25A into the Sentencing Code which provides the Crown Court with a new power to remit adult offenders to a magistrates’ court for sentence .
	The CDA 1998 is amended as set out in paragraph 15(2) to (4) to clarify that the relevant provisions apply in relation to a case sent to the Crown Court under new subsection (1A) of section 47. This includes section 51D, which deals with the notice to be given on sending to the Crown Court for trial; section 52, which deals with supplementary provisions about sending to the Crown Court for trial; and, Schedule 3, which deals with the procedure where accused is sent to Crown Court for trial.