{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2019/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1119",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2019",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules",
  "text": "In Part 24 (Trial and sentence in a magistrates’ court), in rule 24.17 (Statutory declaration of ignorance of proceedings)—\n(a) after paragraph (6) insert—\n“(7) A court officer may take the statutory declaration to which this rule refers if that officer—\n(a) is a justices’ legal adviser; or\n(b) is nominated for the purpose by such a legal adviser.”; and\n(b) after the second paragraph of the note to the rule insert—\n“Section 2 of the Commissioners for Oaths Act 1889 allows rules that regulate the procedure of a court to authorise the taking of a statutory declaration by an officer of that court.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1889 c. 10; section 2 was amended by section 59 of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 11 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1119/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:41.743177+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."
}