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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-amendment-rules-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-amendment-rules-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1977",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Rules 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-amendment-rules-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Criminal Appeal Rules 1968 (as amended), with effect from 1st January 1988, to provide that notice of appeal and of application for leave to appeal from conviction and/or sentence to the Court of Appeal Criminal Division should be served on the Crown Court at the centre at which the proceedings took place, rather than on the Registrar of the Court of Appeal Criminal Division. The Schedule to the Rules sets out amended forms of notice and grounds of appeal (which have been amalgamated), of application relating to bail and of application for witness orders.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1977/note",
    "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."
}