An application under s 246(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 is an 'information presented or filed as provided by law for the prosecution of offenders' within the Third Schedule to the Supreme Court Act 1970, so that the general appeal provisions of that Act do not apply to proceedings commenced by such an application. Proceedings brought by an authorised officer under the Road Transport (General) Act 2005 are not 'proceedings to which the Crown was a party' for the purposes of s 5C of the Criminal Appeal Act 1912, where the officer is the independent repository of statutory powers and is not subject to the control and direction of a Crown agency.
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