{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-amendment-rules-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-amendment-rules-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/702",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-amendment-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of Criminal Appeals Rules 1968",
  "text": "The Criminal Appeal Rules 1968 shall be amended as follows—\n(a) in rule 9 for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted—\n“(2) The examination of a witness shall be conducted by the taking of a deposition and, unless the court directs otherwise, shall take place in public.”; and\n(b) in rule 16A in paragraph (1) after the words “section 159(1)(a)” there shall be inserted “, (aa)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1968/1262."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/702/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:13.759492+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."
}