{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2006/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2006/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/353",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2006",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2005",
  "text": "In Part 35—\n(a) in rule 35.2 (introducing evidence of non-defendant’s bad character), for paragraph (a), substitute—\n“(a) not more than 14 days after the prosecutor has—\n(i) complied or purported to comply with section 3 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (initial disclosure by the prosecutor), or\n(ii) disclosed the previous convictions of that non-defendant; or”; and\n(b) in rule 35.6 (time limit for defendant’s application to exclude evidence of his own bad character) for “7”, substitute “14”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 9 in force at 3.4.2006, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 (c. 25); section 3 was amended by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (c. 23), Schedule 4, paragraph 7(1) and by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), section 32 and Schedule 36, Part 3, paragraphs 20 and 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/353",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/353/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:37:50.100216+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."
}