{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/120",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Senior Courts Of England And Wales\nMagistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nMade 27th January 2016\nLaid before Parliament 5th February 2016\nComing into force 4th April 2016\nThe Criminal Procedure Rule Committee makes the following Rules under section 69 of the Courts Act 2003, after consulting in accordance with section 72(1)(a) of that Act.",
  "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)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/120/introduction",
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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."
}