{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-amendment-rules-1987/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-amendment-rules-1987/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1977",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Rules 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-amendment-rules-1987",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Notice of appeal",
  "text": "In rule 2 of the principal Rules—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for the words “serving it on the Registrar” there shall be substituted the words “serving it on the appropriate officer of the Crown Court”;\n(b) for paragraphs (6) and (7) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—\n“(6) If Form 2 or Form 3 is not signed by the appellant and the appellant is in custody, the Registrar shall, as soon as practicable after receiving the form from the Crown Court, send a copy of it to the appellant.\n(7) Where an appellant does not require leave to appeal, a notice of application for leave to appeal shall be treated as a notice of appeal; and where an appellant requires leave to appeal but serves only a notice of appeal, the notice of appeal shall be treated as an application for leave to appeal.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1977/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:40.374233+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."
}