# The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2018, Article 4: Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015


In Part 5 (Forms and court records)—
(a) in the note to rule 5.8 (Supply to the public, including reporters, of information about cases), for sub-paragraph (e) substitute—
“(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
(b) after the second paragraph of the note to rule 5.9 (Supply of written certificate or extract from records) insert—
“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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/847/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2018/article-4
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