{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2007/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2007/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2317",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2007",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2005",
  "text": "In rule 2.2(1) (Definitions)—\n(a) at the appropriate place, insert—\n(i) ““business day” means any day except Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday or a bank holiday;”;\n(ii) ““live link” means an arrangement by which a person can see and hear, and be seen and heard by, the court when that person is not in court;”; and\n(iii) ““public interest ruling” means a ruling about whether it is in the public interest to disclose prosecution material under sections 3(6), 7A(8) or 8(5) of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.”;\n(b) at the end of the definition of “court officer”, omit “and”; and\n(c) at the end of the definition of “Practice Direction”, for “.”, substitute “; and”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4 in force at 1.10.2007, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 25; section 7A was inserted by section 37 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/2317",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2317/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:45:40.240720+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."
}