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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/353",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2006",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/15.2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15.2",
  "heading": "Time for applying for a preparatory hearing",
  "text": "(1) A party who applies under rule 15.1 must do so not more than 28 days after—\n(a) the committal of the defendant;\n(b) the consent to the preferment of a bill of indictment in relation to the case;\n(c) the service of a notice of transfer; or\n(d) where a person is sent for trial, the service of copies of the documents containing the evidence on which the charge or charges are based.\n(2) A prosecutor who applies under rule 15.1 because he wants the court to order a trial without a jury under section 44 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (jury tampering) must do so as soon as reasonably practicable where the reasons do not arise until after that time limit has expired.\n(3) The court may extend the time limit, even after it has expired.\n[Note. A notice of transfer may be served under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (serious or complex fraud cases), or under section 53 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (certain cases involving children).\nA person is sent for trial under section 51 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (indictable-only offences sent for trial) or (so far as it is in force) under section 51A of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (certain cases involving children). As to the service of prosecution evidence in such a case, see paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the 1998 Act and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Service of Prosecution Evidence) Regulations 2005.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 15.2 in force at 3.4.2006, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 (c. 53); section 53 was amended by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33), Schedule 9, paragraph 49 and by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37), Schedule 8, paragraph 93. It is repealed by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), Schedule 37, Part 4, with effect from a date to be appointed."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 (c. 37); section 51 is substituted by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), Schedule 3, paragraphs 15 and 18 and that amendment is in force for certain purposes; S.I. 2000/3283."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/902."
    }
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