{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2020/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2020/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/32",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2020",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules",
  "text": "In Part 31 (Behaviour orders)—\n(a) in rule 31.1 (When this Part applies), in the note to the rule after sub-paragraph (a)(x) of the first paragraph insert—\n“(xi) section 19 of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 (knife crime prevention orders);”;\n(b) in rule 31.3 (Application for behaviour order and notice of terms of proposed order: special rules)—\n(i) at the end of paragraph (1)(a)(iii) omit “or”,\n(ii) at the end of paragraph (1)(a)(iv) insert “, or”, and\n(iii) after paragraph (1)(a)(iv) insert—\n“(v) a knife crime prevention order;”; and\n(c) in rule 31.5 (Application to vary or revoke behaviour order), after the first paragraph of the note to the rule insert—\n“Under section 26 of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019, where the court has made a knife crime prevention order the court may require the applicant and the defendant to attend one or more review hearings to consider whether the order should be varied or discharged. Where a requirement or prohibition imposed by the knife crime prevention order is to have effect after the end of one year from the date the order is made, the court must convene such a review on a specified date within the last 4 weeks of that year.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2019 c. 17; section 19 comes into force on a date to be appointed."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2019 c. 17; section 26 comes into force on a date to be appointed."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/32/article/9",
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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."
}