# The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Rules)
These Rules make the following amendments to The Criminal Procedure Rules 2011, S.I. 2011/1709:
Rule
Amendment
Part 2
A new paragraph is added to rule 2.1, to provide for the rules there mentioned to apply only when there come into force the statutory powers of allocation and sending for trial to which that paragraph refers.
Part 3
Rule 3.5 is amended to allow the court to require that issues in a case be identified in writing.
Part 9
New rules about allocation and sending for trial are inserted in this, presently empty, Part.
Part 12
The current rules about sending for trial are omitted.
Part 13
The time limits in rules 13.2 and 13.3, for applications to dismiss offences transferred or sent for trial, all are set at 28 days.
Part 37
Rule 37.8 is amended to make it clear that neither party need attend when the court deals with a written guilty plea to which the rule applies.
Part 50
Rules 50.2 and 50.4 are amended to make it clear that the defendant must be allowed an opportunity to consider the evidence on which the court relies in making, on its own initiative, one of the orders listed in the latter rule.
Parts 57 and 58
The rules about service of documents which these two Parts contain are omitted, so that the general rules about service of documents in Part 4 will apply instead.
Part 63
Rule 63.10 is amended to include reference to a qualifying judge advocate as a judge of the Crown Court.
Other amendments to rules, and notes to rules. Rules 2.3 and 62.9, and the notes to Part 3 and to rules 6.1, 16.1, 21.1, 63.10 and 69.1, all are amended to bring up to date the legislative and cross-references they contain.
The Glossary to the Criminal Procedure Rules is amended to omit expressions no longer used in the Rules.
Amendments to the Arrangement of Rules. The Arrangement of Rules is amended in consequence of the insertion of the new Part 9 rules and the omission of Part 12 of the Criminal Procedure Rules.
These Rules come into force on 2nd April 2012.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/3075/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2011/note
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