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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/646",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Criminal Procedure Rules 2014, S.I. 2014/1610, as follows:\nRule\nAmendment\nPart 37\nA new rule 37.9 (Single justice procedure: special rules) is inserted in order to supplement sections 46 to 50 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (trial by single justice on the papers). Rule 37.8 (Written guilty plea: special rules), which supplements section 12 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, is amended so as to make the expression of the new and existing rules correspond. Rules 37.1, 37.2 and 37.3 are amended, rules 37.9 to 37.16 are renumbered as rules 37.10 to 37.17 and amended, and rule 37.17 is renumbered as rule 37.18, in consequence of the 2015 Act and the other rule changes.\nPart 3\nRule 3.9 is amended in consequence.\nPart 4\nRule 4.7 is amended in consequence.\nPart 7\nRules 7.1, 7.2 and 7.4 are amended in consequence.\nPart 9\nRules 9.9, 9.11 and 9.13 are amended in consequence.\nPart 42\nRules 42.1 and 42.4 are amended in consequence.\nThese Rules come into force on 6th April 2015.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/646/note",
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  "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."
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