{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/section-72A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003/section-72A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/39",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003",
  "path": "section/72A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72A",
  "heading": "Rules to be made if required by Lord Chancellor",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if the Lord Chancellor gives the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee written notice that he thinks it is expedient for Criminal Procedure Rules to include provision that would achieve a purpose specified in the notice.\n(2) The Committee must make such rules as it considers necessary to achieve the specified purpose.\n(3) Those rules must be—\n(a) made within a reasonable period after the Lord Chancellor gives notice to the Committee;\n(b) made in accordance with section 72.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 72A inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 15, Sch. 4 para. 336; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "s. 72A(4) omitted (22.8.2007) by virtue of The Secretary of State for Justice Order 2007 (S.I.2007/2828), art. 8, Sch. para. 8(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 72A(4): functions transferred (22.8.2007) by virtue of The Secretary of State for Justice Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2128), art. 4(1)(b) (with art. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/39/section/72A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:53.122162+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."
}