{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1968/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1968/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/19",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Appeal Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1968",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Right of appeal against finding of disability.",
  "text": "(1) Where there has been a determination under section 4 of the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 of the question of a person’s fitness to be tried, and there have been findings that he is under a disability and that he did the act or made the omission charged against him, the person may appeal to the Court of Appeal against either or both of those findings.\n(2) An appeal under this section lies only—\n(a) with the leave of the Court of Appeal; or\n(b) if, within 28 days from the date of the finding that the accused did the act or made the omission charged, the judge of the court of trial grants a certificate that the case is fit for appeal.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(1) substituted (31.3.2005) by Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c. 28), s. 60, Sch. 10 para. 4; S.I. 2005/579, art. 3(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(1) substituted (1.1.1992) by Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991 (c. 25, SIF 39:1), ss. 7, 8, Sch. 3 para. 2; S.I. 1991/2488, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 15(2) substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 35, s. 1(5); S.I. 1995/3061, art. 3(a) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(2)(b) inserted (14.7.2008) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), s. 153(7), Sch. 8 para. 5; S.I. 2008/1586, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1964 c. 84."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/19/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:31.036600+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."
}