{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2005/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2621",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2005",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001",
  "text": "In paragraph 1(1) in Part 1 of Schedule 4—\n(a) in the definition of “trial advocate” add at the end “including a Queen’s Counsel or a leading junior counsel so instructed after the hearing at which pleas are taken”;\n(b) in the definition of “main hearing”—\n(i) in paragraph (b) omit “or cracked trial”; and\n(ii) after paragraph (b) insert —\n“(bb) in relation to a cracked trial, the hearing at which—\n(i) the case becomes a cracked trial by meeting the conditions in paragraph 9(3) or (4), whether or not any pleas were taken at that hearing; or\n(ii) a formal verdict of not guilty was entered as a result of the prosecution offering no evidence under the administrative procedure, whether or not the parties were required by the court to attend the hearing;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2621/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:33.986757+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."
}