{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2018/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2018/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/132",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Senior Courts Of England And Wales\nMagistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nMade 31st January 2018\nLaid before Parliament 1st February 2018\nComing into force 2nd April 2018\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/2018/132/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:02:40.546973+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."
}