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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-confiscation-restraint-and-receivership-rules-2003/article-23",
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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/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Service of documents",
  "text": "(1) Where these Rules require service of a document on the registrar then, unless the registrar, a single judge or the Court of Appeal directs otherwise, the document may be served by any of the following methods—\n(a) in the case of a defendant who is in custody, by delivering it to the person who has custody of him;\n(b) by addressing it to the registrar and delivering it at, or sending it by first-class post to, his office in the Royal Courts of Justice, London WC2.\n(2) Where these Rules require service of a document on the appropriate officer of the Crown Court then, unless the registrar, a single judge or the Court of Appeal directs otherwise, the document may be served by any of the following methods—\n(a) in the case of a defendant who is in custody, by delivering it to the person who has custody of him;\n(b) by delivering it to, or sending it by first-class post to, the appropriate officer at the Crown Court centre at which the decision being appealed against was made.\n(3) A person who has custody of a defendant and to whom the defendant delivers a document under paragraph (1)(a) or (2)(a) must endorse on it the date of delivery and forward it to the registrar or the appropriate officer of the Crown Court, as the case may be.\n(4) Where these Rules require the service of a document on any other person then, unless the registrar, a single judge or the Court of Appeal directs otherwise, the document may be served by any of the following methods—\n(a) in all cases, by delivering the document personally to the party to be served;\n(b) if no solicitor is acting for the party to be served by delivering the document at, or by sending it by first-class post to, his residence or his last-known residence;\n(c) if a solicitor is acting for the party to be served—\n(i) by delivering the document at, or sending it by first-class post to, the solicitor’s address for service; or\n(ii) where the solicitor’s address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange, by leaving the document at that document exchange or at a document exchange which transmits documents on every business day to that document exchange; or\n(iii) if the solicitor has indicated that he is willing to accept service by facsimile transmission, by sending a legible copy of the document by facsimile transmission to the solicitor’s office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/384",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/428/article/23",
    "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."
}