{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2018/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/847",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2018",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015",
  "text": "In Part 5 (Forms and court records)—\n(a) in the note to rule 5.8 (Supply to the public, including reporters, of information about cases), for sub-paragraph (e) substitute—\n“(e) the Data Protection Act 1998 (sections 34 and 35 of the Act contain relevant exemptions from prohibitions against disclosure that usually apply) and Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (sections 43(3) and 117 of which make exceptions for criminal proceedings from some other provisions of that Act); and”; and\n(b) after the second paragraph of the note to rule 5.9 (Supply of written certificate or extract from records) insert—\n“Under section 92 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, a certificate which records a conviction for an offence and a statement by the convicting court that that offence is listed in Schedule 3 to the Act is evidence of those facts for certain purposes of that Act.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 29; the Act is repealed, subject to transitional and saving provisions, with effect from 25th May, 2018."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2018 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2003 c. 42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/847/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:31.629544+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."
}