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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-confiscation-restraint-and-receivership-rules-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/428",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Appeal (Confiscation, Restraint and Receivership) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-confiscation-restraint-and-receivership-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the 1968 Act” means the Criminal Appeal Act 1968;\n“the 2002 Act” means the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002;\n“appellant” means a person who brings or seeks to bring an appeal;\n“defendant” has the meaning given to it in Part 2 of the 2002 Act;\n“the Director of the Assets Recovery Agency” is the Director appointed under section 1 of the 2002 Act;\n“the Order” means the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Appeals under Part 2) Order 2003;\n“the principal rules” means the Criminal Appeal Rules 1968;\n“respondent” means—\n(i) a person other than the appellant who was a party to the proceedings in the Crown Court and who is affected by an appeal; and\n(ii) a person who is permitted by the Court of Appeal to be a party to the appeal;\n“the registrar” means the registrar of criminal appeals of the Court of Appeal;\nreferences to the Court of Appeal are to the criminal division of the Court of Appeal;\na reference to a form is a reference to a form set out in the Schedule to these Rules or a form with the same effect;\nreferences to a single judge are to any judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2002 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/82."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1968/1262, to which there are amendments not relevant in this context."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/428/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:21.358400+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."
}