{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2012/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3089",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Senior Courts Of England And Wales\nMagistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nMade 11th December 2012\nLaid before Parliament 13th December 2012\nComing into force 1st April 2013\nThe Criminal Procedure Rule Committee makes the following Rules under section 69 of the Courts Act 2003 and section 174(4) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, after consulting in accordance with section 72(1)(a) of the Courts Act 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 39; section 69 was amended by sections 15(1) and 146 of, and paragraphs 308 and 332 of Schedule 4 and Part 2 of Schedule 18 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 44; section 174 was substituted by section 64 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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  },
  "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."
}