{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-right-of-reply-act-1964/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-right-of-reply-act-1964/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/34",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Right Of Reply) Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-right-of-reply-act-1964",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Right of reply at trials on indictment.",
  "text": "(1) Upon the trial of any person on indictment—\n(a) the prosecution shall not be entitled to the right of reply on the ground only that the Attorney General or the Solicitor General appears for the Crown at the trial; and\n(b) the time at which the prosecution is entitled to exercise that right shall, notwithstanding anything in section 2 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1865, be after the close of the evidence for the defence and before the closing speech (if any) by or on behalf of the accused.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(2) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1865 c. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/34/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:59:40.360846+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."
}