# The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023, Rule 5: Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules


In Part 5 (Forms and court records)—
(a) in rule 5.8 (Request for information about a case)—
(i) for paragraph (1) substitute—
“(1) This rule—
(a) applies where anyone, including a member of the public or a reporter, requests information about a case including information contained in materials kept by the court officer for the purposes of the case; but
(b) does not apply if rule 5.12 applies (Request for written certificate or extract for use in evidence, etc.).”,
(ii) in paragraph (4)(c)(ii) for “about bail” substitute “to grant or withhold bail, or to impose or vary a bail condition”,
(iii) at the end of paragraph (4)(g) omit “and”,
(iv) at the end of paragraph (4)(h) insert “; and”, and
(v) after paragraph (4)(h) insert—
“(i) notice that reporting restrictions may apply to the publication of information supplied under this rule.”; and
(b) in rule 5.12 (Request for written certificate or extract for use in evidence, etc.)—
(i) in paragraph (1), in the words before sub-paragraph (a), after “legislation” insert “other than these Rules”,
(ii) in paragraph (1)(b) for “such a certificate or extract” substitute “information about a case, including information contained in materials kept by the court officer for the purposes of the case,”,
(iii) in paragraph (2), in the words before sub-paragraph (a), after “extract” insert “, or such information,”,
(iv) in paragraph (2)(b) and in paragraph (3) for “or extract” in each place it occurs substitute “, extract or information”, and
(v) for the second paragraph of the note to the rule substitute—
“ Examples of legislation to which paragraph (1)(b) of this rule applies include (this is not a complete list)—
(a) section 17 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1995, under which information may be required by the Criminal Cases Review Commission;
(b) section 115 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, under which information may be supplied to specified authorities for the purposes of that Act; and
(c) article 7 of the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2021, under which information may be required to assist in a review of Scottish criminal records concerning a time at which the subject of those records was under 12 years old.]”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/44/rule/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2023/rule-5
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