{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-police-act-2001/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-police-act-2001/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2001/16",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-police-act-2001",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Service of notices",
  "text": "(1) Any document required or authorised by virtue of sections 19 to 26 to be served on any person may be served in accordance with Criminal Procedure Rules.\n(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1)—\n(a) Criminal Procedure Rules (as they have effect from time to time) apply to the document to be served as if it were a document to be served in criminal proceedings before a magistrates’ court, and\n(b) any magistrates’ court may discharge functions conferred on a court by those Rules in relation to such service.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(1) substituted (28.6.2022) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(3), Sch. 1 para. 14(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 27(1A) inserted (28.6.2022) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(3), Sch. 1 para. 14(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 27(2)-(8) omitted (28.6.2022) by virtue of Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(3), Sch. 1 para. 14(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/16/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:02.518965+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."
}