{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1972/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1972/section-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/71",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1972",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Admissibility of written statements made outside England and Wales.",
  "text": "(1) . . . section 9 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (. . . written statements to be used as evidence in . . . criminal proceedings) . . . and section 89 of the said Act of 1967 (. . . false statements which are tendered in evidence under the said section . . . 9 . . .) shall apply to written statements made in Scotland or Northern Ireland as well as to written statements made in England and Wales.\n(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), Sch. 7 para. 114(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 46(1) repealed (4.7.1996 but with effect (8.3.1997) as mentioned in s. 65, Sch. 1 Pt. III, para. 39) by 1996 c. 25, ss. 47, 80, Sch. 1 Pt. II, para. 22(2), Sch. 5 para. 10 (with s. 78(1)); S.I. 1997/683, art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 46(1A)-(1C) repealed (18.6.2012 for specified purposes, 5.11.2012 for specified purposes, 28.5.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), s. 336(3)(4), Sch. 3 para. 47, Sch. 37 Pt. 4; S.I. 2012/1320, art. 4(1)(c)(d)(2)(3) (with art. 5) (see S.I. 2012/2574, arts. 2, 3, 4, Sch. (as amended (4.11.2012) by S.I. 2012/2761, art. 2) and S.I. 2013/1103, arts. 2, 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 46(2) repealed (4.7.1996 but with effect (8.3.1997) as mentioned in s. 65, Sch. 1 Pt. III, para. 39) by 1996 c. 25, ss. 47, 80, Sch. 1 Pt. II, para. 22(4), Sch. 5 para. 10 (with s. 78(1)); S.I. 1997/683, art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/71/section/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:18.086217+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."
}