{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1968/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1968/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/19",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Appeal Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1968",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Right of appellant to be present.",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided by this section, an appellant shall be entitled to be present, if he wishes it, on the hearing of his appeal, although he may be in custody.\n(2) A person in custody shall not be entitled to be present—\n(a) where his appeal is on some ground involving a question of law alone; or\n(b) on an application by him for leave to appeal; or\n(c) on any proceedings preliminary or incidental to an appeal; or\n(d) where he is in custody in consequence of a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity or of a finding of disability,\nunless the Court of Appeal give him leave to be present.\n(3) The power of the Court of Appeal to pass sentence on a person may be exercised although he is for any reason not present.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 22(4)-(6) omitted (28.6.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(5)(y), Sch. 20 para. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/19/section/22",
    "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."
}