{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2009/rule-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2009/rule-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2087",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2009",
  "path": "rule/21",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After rule 59.5 (Application for discharge of a restraint order by the person who applied for the order), insert—\n“Application to punish for contempt of court\n59.6 (1) This rule applies where a person is accused of disobeying a restraint order.\n(2) An applicant who wants the Crown Court to exercise its power to punish that person for contempt of court must comply with the rules in Part 62 (Contempt of court).\n[Note. The Crown Court has inherent power to punish for contempt of court a person who disobeys its order: see section 45 of the Senior Courts Act 1981.]”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 21 in force at 5.10.2009, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 54; the words “Senior Courts” are to be substituted for “Supreme Court” in the title of this Act by section 59(5) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 11 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), with effect from 1 October 2009."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2087/rule/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:07:24.413372+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."
}