{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996/section-4.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/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Initial duty to disclose: further provisions.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where—\n(a) the prosecutor acts under section 3, and\n(b) before so doing he was given a document in pursuance of provision included, by virtue of section 24(3), in a code operative under Part II.\n(2) In such a case the prosecutor must give the document to the accused at the same time as the prosecutor acts under section 3.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 heading 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. 22; S.I. 2005/950, art. 2, Sch. 1; S. I. 2005/1817, art. 2 (with savings in art. 2(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. I power to apply (with modifications) conferred by SI 2015/1490 rule 23.2 Note (as inserted (2.4.2018) by The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/132), rules 1, 11(a)(v))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/25/section/4",
    "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."
}