{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/part-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/part-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "part/2",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING THE RULES; POWERS AND DUTIES OF COURT OFFICERS AND JUSTICES’ LEGAL ADVISERS",
  "text": "Contents of this Part\nUnderstanding and applying the Rules\nWhen the Rules apply\nrule 2.1\nDefinitions\nrule 2.2\nReferences to Acts of Parliament and to Statutory Instruments\nrule 2.3\nPowers of authorised court officers\nExercise of court’s functions by authorised court officers: general rules\nrule 2.4\nExercise of functions of the Court of Appeal\nrule 2.5\nExercise of functions of the High Court\nrule 2.6\nExercise of functions of the Crown Court\nrule 2.7\nExercise of functions of magistrates’ courts\nrule 2.8\nExercise of functions of a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) in extradition cases\nrule 2.9\nCourt’s power to extend time under rule 2.6 or rule 2.7\nrule 2.10\nPowers of court officers to take statutory declarations\nTaking of statutory declarations by court officers\nrule 2.11\nJustices’ legal advisers\nDuties of justices’ legal adviser\nrule 2.12",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/part/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:12:44.140935+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."
}