# The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025, Rule 14.1: When this Part applies

Extent: E+W

(1) This Part applies where a magistrates’ court or the Crown Court can—
(a) grant or withhold bail, or impose or vary a condition of bail; and
(b) where bail has been withheld, extend a custody time limit.
(2) Rules 14.18, 14.19 and 14.20 apply where a magistrates’ court can authorise an extension of the period for which a defendant is released on bail before being charged with an offence.
(3) In this Part, ‘defendant’ includes a person who has been granted bail by a police officer.
[Note. See in particular—
(a) the Bail Act 1976;
(b) section 128 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (general powers of magistrates’ courts in relation to bail);
(c) section 81 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 (general powers of the Crown Court in relation to bail);
(d) section 115 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (exclusive power of the Crown Court to grant bail to a defendant charged with murder);
(e) section 22 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (provision for custody time limits);
(f) the Prosecution of Offences (Custody Time Limits) Regulations 1987 (maximum periods during which a defendant may be kept in custody pending trial); and
(g) sections 47ZF and 47ZG of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (extensions by court of pre-charge bail time limit).
At the end of this Part there isa summary of the general entitlement to bail, and of the exceptions to that entitlement.]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/rule/14.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-14.1
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