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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998-dismissal-of-charges-sent-rules-1998/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3048",
  "legislation_title": "The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Dismissal of Charges Sent) Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998-dismissal-of-charges-sent-rules-1998",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Determination of applications for dismissal—procedural matters",
  "text": "(1) A judge may grant leave for a witness to give oral evidence on an application for dismissal notwithstanding that notice of intention to call the witness has not been given in accordance with the foregoing provisions of these Rules.\n(2) Where an application for dismissal is determined otherwise than at an oral hearing, the appropriate officer of the Crown Court shall, as soon as practicable, send to the applicant, the prosecution and any person with whom the applicant is jointly charged, a notice of the outcome of the application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/384",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3048/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:56.089661+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."
}