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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/699",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2007",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules add the following new provisions to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (“the Rules”):\nA new Part 4 (service of documents), in substitution for the existing Part 4, which consolidates, revises and simplifies the rules about the service of documents in criminal cases.\nA new Part 14 (indictments), in substitution for the existing Part 14, which revises and simplifies the rules about the service, form and content of indictments. In some circumstances the new rules allow more than one incident of the same offence to be charged in a single paragraph of an indictment, which was not explicitly permitted by the rules these replace.\nA new Part 28 (witness summonses, warrants and orders), in substitution for the existing Part 28, which revises and simplifies the rules about applications for witnesses to give evidence or produce documents for use in evidence. The new rules require the court to consider the rights of those to whom confidential information or documents relate before a witness can be required to give evidence about them. They allow for applications to set aside orders that have been made.\nNew rules in Part 2 (when the Rules apply) explain when the new rules in Parts 14 and 28 will apply.\nIn addition, the following amendments and revocations are made:\nThe rules contained in the Indictment Rules 1971 are revoked (they are superseded by the new rules in Part 14).\nPart 19 (custody and bail) is amended to allow for applications under section 47(1E) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to vary bail conditions before charge, and to remove some inconsistencies in the rules in that Part.\nPart 31 (restriction on cross-examination by a defendant acting in person) is amended so that the rules in that Part apply in magistrates' courts as well as in the Crown Court.\nMost of the existing rules about service of documents are revoked (they are superseded by the new consolidated rules in Part 4) and other existing rules are amended to make them consistent with the new Part 4 rules.\nThe Glossary is extended to include explanations of the expressions “requisition” and “written charge”.\nThe changes made by these Rules come into force on 2nd April 2007.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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