{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1948/section-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1948/section-42.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/58",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1948",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Order of speeches.",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding anything in section two of the Criminal Procedure Act 1865, as amended by section three of the Criminal Evidence Act 1898, the prosecution shall not be entitled to the right of reply upon the trial of any person on indictment on the ground only that documents have been put in evidence for the defence.\n2),(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 42(2)(3) repealed by Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 (c. 55), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1865 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1898 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/58/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:22:38.347332+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."
}