{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1987-notice-of-transfer-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1987-notice-of-transfer-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/737",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 1987 (Notice of Transfer) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1987-notice-of-transfer-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of 1988 Regulations",
  "text": "The Criminal Justice Act 1987 (Notice of Transfer) Regulations 1988 shall be amended as follows—\n(a) in Form 1 in the Schedule—\n(i) paragraph 4(b) for the words “seriousness and complexity” there shall be substituted the words “seriousness or complexity”;\n(ii) paragraph 8, together with the heading “SCHEDULE OF PROPOSED WITNESSES” at the end of the Form, shall be omitted;\n(b) in Form 2 in the Schedule—\n(i) for paragraph 5 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“5 I enclose a list of witnesses—\n(a) indicating those whom the Crown proposes to call to give oral evidence at your trial; and\n(b) indicating those whose attendance at your trial the Crown considers unnecessary on the ground that their evidence is unlikely to be required or unlikely to be disputed;\ntogether with copies of those statements or other documents outlining the evidence of those witnesses.”\n(ii) paragraph 8 shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1691. There are no relevant amending instruments."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/737/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:41.787117+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."
}