{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/section-140",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/section-140.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/44",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003",
  "path": "section/140",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "140",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Chapter 3",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n“criminal proceedings” means criminal proceedings in relation to which the strict rules of evidence apply;\n“defendant”, in relation to criminal proceedings, means a person charged with an offence in those proceedings;\n“document” means anything in which information of any description is recorded, but not including any recording of sounds or moving images;\n“oral evidence” includes evidence which, by reason of any disability, disorder or other impairment, a person called as a witness gives in writing or by signs or by way of any device;\n“video recording” means any recording, on any medium, from which a moving image may by any means be produced, and includes the accompanying sound-track.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 140 wholly in force at 5.4.2004, see s. 336(3) and S.I. 2004/829, art. 2(1)(2) (subject to art. 2(3)-(6))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/44/section/140",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:40.404644+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."
}