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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2016/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/120",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2016",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015",
  "text": "In rule 3.24 (Arraigning the defendant on the indictment)—\n(a) after paragraph (4) insert—\n“(5) In a case in which a magistrates’ court sends the defendant for trial, the Crown Court must take the defendant’s plea—\n(a) not less than 2 weeks after the date on which that sending takes place, unless the parties otherwise agree; and\n(b) not more than 16 weeks after that date, unless the court otherwise directs (either before or after that period expires).”; and\n(b) in the first paragraph of the note to the rule, after ‘section 6 of the Criminal Law Act 1967’ insert ‘, section 77 of the Senior Courts Act 1981’.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 58; section 6 was amended by paragraph 41 of Schedule 36 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) and section 11 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c. 28)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 54; section 77 was amended by section 15 of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to, the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (c. 38), section 168 of, and paragraph 18 of Schedule 9 to, the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33), section 41 of, and paragraph 54 of Schedule 3 to, the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) and article 3 of, and paragraphs 11 and 13 of the Schedule to, SI 2004/2035. It is further amended by section 31 of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 to, the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (c. 23) with effect from a date to be appointed."
    }
  ],
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    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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