{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2024/rule-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-rules-2024/rule-8.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/8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules",
  "text": "In Part 18 (Measures to help a witness or defendant to give evidence or otherwise participate)—\n(a) in rule 18.1 (When this Part applies)—\n(i) omit paragraph (c), and\n(ii) renumber paragraphs (d) to (f) as (c) to (e) respectively;\n(b) in rule 18.3 (Meaning of ‘intermediary’ and ‘intermediary’s report’), in paragraph (a)—\n(i) omit sub-paragraph (ii), and\n(ii) renumber sub-paragraphs (iii) and (iv) as (ii) and (iii) respectively;\n(c) in rule 18.8 (Special measures directions; Exercise of court’s powers), in paragraph (2)—\n(i) at the end of sub-paragraph (b) omit “and”, and\n(ii) after sub-paragraph (c) insert—\n“(d) the date by which any application must be made to exclude as evidence any part of the recording; and\n(e) the date by which any editing of the recording must be completed.”;\n(d) omit—\n(i) the cross-heading “Defendant’s evidence direction” after rule 18.13 (Special measures directions; Representations in response), and\n(ii) rules 18.14 (Defendant’s evidence directions; Exercise of court’s powers) to 18.17 (Defendant’s evidence directions; Representations in response) inclusive; and\n(e) amend the table of contents correspondingly.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}