{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2024/rule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2024/rule-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/62",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2024",
  "path": "rule/5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules",
  "text": "In Part 5 (Forms and court records), in rule 5.4 (Duty to make records)—\n(a) after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(4) Where a court record appears to the court officer to be incorrect the officer must correct it if—\n(a) the parties agree on the terms of the correction; or\n(b) the court so directs.\n(5) Where a court (“the receiving court”), or a party to the proceedings before that court, questions the accuracy of a record of a decision by a court (“the transferring court”) which sent a case for trial, committed, remitted or transferred a case for sentence or other determination, or from which an appeal has been brought to the receiving court—\n(a) the court officer for the transferring court must review that record;\n(b) if that record appears to be correct then the court officer for the transferring court must so inform the receiving court as soon as practicable, explaining that conclusion; and\n(c) if that record appears to be incorrect then the court officer must correct it.”; and\n(b) at the end of the note to the rule insert—\n“Where a court record accurately records a court’s decision but a party (a) wants the court to change that decision, or (b) questions the court’s power to make that decision, see rules 28.4 (Variation of sentence) and 44.3 (Reopening a case in a magistrates’ court; Setting aside a conviction or varying a costs, etc. order).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/62/rule/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:35:50.166045+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."
}