{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2011/rule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2011/rule-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/3075",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2011",
  "path": "rule/5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2011",
  "text": "In the note to rule 6.1 (When this Part applies), for the fourth paragraph substitute—\n“Under section 8 of the Senior Courts Act 1981, a High Court judge, a Circuit judge, a Recorder, a qualifying judge advocate and a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) each may act as a Crown Court judge.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 54; section 8 was amended by sections 65 and 109 of, and paragraph 259 of Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39). It is further amended by paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), with effect from a date to be appointed. The 1981 Act’s title was amended by section 59(5) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 11 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/3075/rule/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:46:26.410464+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."
}