{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/25",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Applications: opportunity to be heard.",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) an application is made under section 3(6), 7A(8), 8(5) , 14(2) or 15(4),\n(b) a person claiming to have an interest in the material applies to be heard by the court, and\n(c) he shows that he was involved (whether alone or with others and whether directly or indirectly) in the prosecutor’s attention being brought to the material,\nthe court must not make an order under section 3(6), 7A(8), 8(5) , 14(3) or 15(5) (as the case may be) unless the person applying under paragraph (b) has been given an opportunity to be heard.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(a)(c) substituted (4.4.2005 for E.W. and 15.7.2005 for N.I.) by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), ss. 331, 336, Sch. 36 Pt. 3 para. 32; S.I. 2005/950, art. 2, Sch. 1; S.I. 2005/1817, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "In its application to Northern Ireland, this section has effect subject to the modifications set out in Schedule 4; see s. 79"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/25/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:07.183739+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."
}