{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/part-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/part-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "part/9",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "ALLOCATION AND SENDING FOR TRIAL",
  "text": "Contents of this Part\nGeneral rules\nWhen this Part applies\nrule 9.1\nExercise of magistrates’ court’s powers\nrule 9.2\nMatters to be specified on sending for trial\nrule 9.3\nDuty of justices’ legal adviser\nrule 9.4\nDuty of magistrates’ court officer\nrule 9.5\nSending without allocation for Crown Court trial\nProsecutor’s notice requiring Crown Court trial\nrule 9.6\nSending for Crown Court trial\nrule 9.7\nAllocation for magistrates’ court or Crown Court trial\nAdult defendant: request for plea\nrule 9.8\nAdult defendant: guilty plea\nrule 9.9\nAdult defendant: not guilty plea\nrule 9.10\nAdult defendant: allocation for magistrates’ court trial\nrule 9.11\nAdult defendant: prosecutor’s application for Crown Court trial\nrule 9.12\nYoung defendant\nrule 9.13\nAllocation and sending for Crown Court trial\nrule 9.14\nCommittal for sentence in connection with sending for trial\nCommittal for sentence for offence related to an offence sent for trial\nrule 9.15\nSending back, etc. for magistrates’ court trial\nSending back or referring case for magistrates’ court trial\nrule 9.16",
  "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/9",
    "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."
}