{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-18.3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-18.3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/18.3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "18.3",
  "heading": "Meaning of ‘intermediary’ and ‘intermediary’s report’",
  "text": "In this Part—\n(a) ‘intermediary’ means a person who is—\n(i) approved by the court for the purposes of section 29 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Examination of witness through intermediary),\n(ii) asked to assess a defendant’s communication needs, or\n(iii) appointed by the court to facilitate a defendant’s effective participation in the trial, when the defendant gives evidence or at any other time, where otherwise that defendant’s communication needs would impede such participation; and\n(b) a reference to ‘an intermediary’s report’ means a report by such a person which complies with rule 18.24.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 18.3 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 23; section 29 was amended by paragraph 384 of Schedule 8 to the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/721",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/721",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/rule/18.3",
    "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."
}