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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2022/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2022/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/45",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2022",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Senior Courts Of England And Wales\nMagistrates’ Courts, England And Wales\nMade at 12.00 p.m. on 17th January 2022\nLaid before Parliament at 4.30 p.m. on 17th January 2022\nComing into force 4th April 2022\nThe Criminal Procedure Rule Committee makes the following Rules under section 69 of the Courts Act 2003, section 52(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 and section 141(2) of the Sentencing Act 2020, after consulting in accordance with section 72(1)(a) of the 2003 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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 54; section 52 was amended by section 31 of, and Part II of Schedule 1 to, the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (c. 23), section 4 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), article 3 and paragraphs 11 and 12(a) of the Schedule to S.I. 2004/2035 and section 59 of, and paragraph 26 of Schedule 11 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2020 c. 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/45/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."
}