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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-1996-amendment-miscellaneous-2020/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2020/27",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-1996-amendment-miscellaneous-2020",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Act of Adjournal)\nThis Act of Adjournal makes a number of amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 1996.\nChapter 22 is amended so that applications for review of arrangements for vulnerable witnesses may be determined with, or without, a hearing. Form 22.4 is amended to reflect that change. In addition, rule 22.10 is omitted with the result that it will no longer be necessary for a witness who is to give evidence in chief in the form of a prior statement to be called before the evidence is given.\nThe amendments to Chapter 56 have the effect of requiring that where the judge or court, as the case may be, is considering making a reporting restriction order then an interim order must always be made first.\nForms 40.2 and 40.3 are substituted so that the minuter is required to provide detailed information in a structured format when seeking to raise a compatibility issue or a devolution issue.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/27/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:03:52.487397+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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