{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2012/rule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2012/rule-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3089",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2012",
  "path": "rule/3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2012",
  "text": "In Part 2 (Understanding and applying the Rules)—\n(a) in rule 2.4 (Representatives)—\n(i) in paragraph (1)(b), for ‘where that party is a corporation’ substitute ‘where that corporation is a defendant’, and\n(ii) in paragraph (2), for ‘Anyone with a prosecutor’s authority to do so may, on that prosecutor’s behalf’ substitute ‘A member, officer or employee of a prosecutor may, on the prosecutor’s behalf’; and\n(b) in the note to rule 2.4, after the second paragraph insert—\n“Sections 3 and 6 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 make provision about the institution of prosecutions.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 23; section 3 was amended by section 15 of, and paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 to, the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (c. 38), paragraph 39 of Schedule 7 to the Police Act 1996 (c. 16), section 134 of, and paragraph 48 of Schedule 9 to, the Police Act 1997 (c. 50), section 164 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33), paragraph 10 of Schedule 7 to the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30), sections 86 and 92 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 (c. 38), section 190 of the Extradition Act 2003 (c. 41), section 7 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 (c. 19), section 40 of, and paragraph 41 of Schedule 9 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), sections 59, 140 and 174 of, and paragraph 47 of Schedule 4 and Part 2 of Schedule 17 to, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), sections 7, 8 and 52 of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 3 to, the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (c. 38), section 74 of, and paragraph 149 of Schedule 8 to, the Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27) and paragraph 171 of Schedule 16 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3089/rule/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:10:40.758779+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."
}