{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2023/rule-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2023/rule-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/786",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2023",
  "path": "rule/11",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules",
  "text": "In Part 28 (Sentencing procedures in special cases and on committal for sentence, etc.), in rule 28.4 (Variation of sentence)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a) for “vary or rescind a sentence or order” substitute “vary, rescind or set aside a sentence, penalty or order”;\n(b) for paragraph (3)(a)(i) substitute—\n“(i) the sentence, penalty or order that that party wants the court to vary, rescind or set aside, or”;\n(c) for paragraph (3)(c)(i) substitute—\n“(i) explain why the sentence, penalty or order should be varied, rescinded or set aside,”; and\n(d) after the first paragraph of the note to the rule insert—\n“Under section 16M of the 1980 Act a magistrates’ court can set aside a penalty imposed under section 16I of the Act on a defendant who accepts the automatic online conviction option under section 16H if the amount of the penalty appears to the court to be unjust. If the court sets aside such a penalty it may impose any sentence that it could have imposed for the offence if the defendant had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 16M is inserted by section 3 of the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35) with effect from a date to be appointed."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/786/rule/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:42:49.135722+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."
}