{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2023/rule-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-no-2-rules-2023/rule-9.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/9",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules",
  "text": "In Part 18 (Measures to help a witness or defendant to give evidence or otherwise particate)—\n(a) in rule 18.8 (special measures directions; exercise of court’s powers)—\n(i) the text of the rule becomes paragraph (1), and\n(ii) after paragraph (1) insert—\n“(2) Where a direction provides for evidence to be admitted under section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Video recorded cross-examination or re-examination) the court must set a timetable that provides for—\n(a) the date of any ground rules hearing under rule 3.9;\n(b) the date on which the cross-examination and any re-examination will be recorded; and\n(c) the date by which any application under section 28(5) of the 1999 Act must be made for a direction for further cross-examination or re-examination.”; and\n(b) in rule 18.9 (Special measures direction without application), in paragraph (3)(b) omit “or section 28”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 23; section 8 was amended by section 109 of, and paragraph 384 of Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/786/rule/9",
    "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."
}