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  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2006",
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  "number": "18.1",
  "heading": "Scope of this Part and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Part applies to any warrant issued by a justice of the peace.\n(2) Where a rule applies to some of those warrants and not others, it says so.\n(3) In this Part, the “relevant person” is the person against whom the warrant is issued.\n[Note. For the rules governing the issue and execution of a search warrant, see sections 15 and 16 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. For those governing warrants of distress (warrants to enforce payments of fines etc.), see rule 52.8.]",
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      "text": "1984 (c. 60); section 15 is amended by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), section 113(1) and (5) to (8) and section 114(1) and (3) to (7), with effect from a date to be appointed. Section 16 was amended by the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), Schedule 8, paragraph 281 and by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), section 2. It is further amended by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), section 113(1) and (9) and section 114(1) and (8), with effect from a date to be appointed."
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