- a consecutive sentence
means a sentence which is one of two or more sentences of imprisonment the terms of which have been ordered to run consecutively.
- access
means, in relation to any premises, any part of any site or building within which those premises are situated which constitutes an ordinary means of access to those premises (whether or not that is its sole or primary use).
- fine
includes any sum treated by any enactment as a fine for the purposes of its enforcement and any sum to be found as caution;
- imprisonment
includes, in the case of a person who is under the age of 21 years, detention;
- indictable offence
means an offence which, if committed by an adult, is triable on indictment, whether it is exclusively so triable or triable either way;
- inferior court
means a magistrates’, court or a coroner and”.
- moving picture soundtrack
means any sound record designed for playing with a moving picture film, whether incorporated with the film or not.”
- offence
means an offence triable in England and Wales....
- offence triable either way
means an offence which, if committed by an adult, is triable either on indictment or summarily;
- part of the United Kingdom
means England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland;
- pre-1949 enactment
means an enactment passed before 1st January 1949 or an enactment passed on or after that date which (whether directly or, through successive re-enactments, indirectly) re-enacts with or without modification an enactment passed before that date.
- premises
means any building, any part of a building under separate occupation, any land ancillary to a building, the site comprising any building or buildings together with any land ancillary thereto, and (for the purposes only of sections 10 and 11 above) any other place;
- prison
means— (i) in the case of a person who is under the age of 21 years arrested in Scotland, a young offenders institution;
- relevant enactment
means an enactment contained in the Criminal Law Act 1977 or in any Act (including this Act) passed before, or in the same Session as, that Act. 7 Schedule 7B to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of altering the penalties available on summary conviction of the offences therein mentioned;
- sum adjudged to be paid by a conviction
has the meaning given by section 150(3) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 or, in Northern Ireland, Article 2(5) of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.
- summary offence
means an offence which, if committed by an adult, is triable only summarily;
- the material time
means the time when that provision comes into force.
- the premises of a closed consular post
means premises which fall within Article 27 of the Convention mentioned in subsection (2)(b) above (as that Article has effect in the United Kingdom by virtue of the section and Schedule mentioned in that paragraph);
- the premises of a closed diplomatic mission
means premises which fall within Article 45 of the Convention mentioned in subsection (2)(a) above (as that Article has effect in the United Kingdom by virtue of the section and Schedule mentioned in that paragraph);
- the Prescribed sum
means £1,000 or such sum as is for the time being substituted in this definition bv an order in force under section 289D(1) below;
- the relevant publication
means— a in the case of any proceedings under this section for publishing an obscene article, the publication in respect of which the defendant would be charged if the proceedings were brought;
- weapon of offence
means any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to or incapacitating a person, or intended by the person having it with him for such use.