{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-attendance-of-witnesses-act-1965/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-attendance-of-witnesses-act-1965/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/69",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Attendance of Witnesses) Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-attendance-of-witnesses-act-1965",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make new provision for securing the attendance of witnesses in criminal proceedings before courts of assize and quarter sessions; to abolish the binding over of prosecutors for the purpose of such proceedings; to restrict the issue of subpoenas for securing the attendance of witnesses before magistrates’ courts; and for connected purposes.\n[5th August 1965]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act amended (E.W.) by Criminal Justice Act 1987 (c. 38, SIF 39:1), s. 5(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act modified (prosp.) by War Crimes Act 1991 (c. 13, SIF 39:4), s. 1(4), Sch. Part I para.4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act amended (E.W.) (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 53(5), Sch. 6 para. 3; S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "By Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 101(1), Sch. 12 para.23; S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(1), Sch.1 it is provided (14.10.1991) that in relation to any time before the commencement of s. 70 of that 1991 Act (which came into force on 1.10.1992 by S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2) references in any enactment amended by that 1991 Act, to youth courts shall be construed as references to juvenile courts."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 5.10.1965 see s. 10(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/69/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:06.125650+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."
}