{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/schedule-36/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/schedule-36/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/44",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/36/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 39 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 (service of summons and citation throughout United Kingdom) for subsection (1) there is substituted—\n“(1) The following documents, namely—\n(a) a summons requiring a person charged with an offence to appear before a court in England or Wales,\n(b) a written charge (within the meaning of section 29 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003) charging a person with an offence,\n(c) a requisition (within the meaning of that section) requiring a person charged with an offence to appear before a court in England or Wales, and\n(d) any other document which, by virtue of any enactment, may or must be served on a person with, or at the same time as, a document mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above,\nmay, in such manner as may be prescribed by rules of court, be served on him in Scotland or Northern Ireland.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/44/schedule/36/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:34:27.767865+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."
}