{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-2.2/enacted",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-2.2/enacted.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/enacted",
  "path": "rule/2.2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules, unless the context makes it clear that something different is meant:\n‘advocate’ means a person who is entitled to exercise a right of audience in the court under section 13 of the Legal Services Act 2007;\n‘authorised court officer’ has the meaning given by rule 2.4;\n‘business day’ means any day except Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday or a bank holiday;\n‘court’ means a tribunal with jurisdiction over criminal cases. It includes a judge, recorder, District Judge (Magistrates’ Court), lay justice and, when exercising their judicial powers, the Registrar of Criminal Appeals and an authorised court officer;\n‘court officer’ means the appropriate member of the staff of a court;\n‘justices’ legal adviser’ means a person authorised under section 28 of the Courts Act 2003 to give advice about law to justices of the peace;\n‘legal representative’ means:\nthe person for the time being named as a party’s representative in any legal aid representation order made under section 16 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, or\nsubject to that, the person named as a party’s representative in any notice for the time being given under rule 46.2 (Notice of appointment, etc. of legal representative: general rules), provided that person is entitled to conduct litigation in the court under section 13 of the Legal Services Act 2007;\n‘live link’ means a live audio link or a live video link and:\n‘live audio link’ means a live telephone link or other arrangement by which a person taking part in a hearing can hear, and be heard by, everyone else who is taking part and who is not in the same place as that person,\n‘live video link’ means a live television link or other arrangement by which a person taking part in a hearing can see and hear, and be seen and heard by, everyone else who is taking part and who is not in the same place as that person;\n‘live link direction’ means a direction that:\nunder section 51(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 requires or permits a person to take part through a live audio link or a live video link in the proceedings listed in section 51(3) of that Act, or\nunder section 206A of the Extradition Act 2003 requires a person to take part through a live link in a hearing in proceedings under Part 1 or Part 2 of that Act;\n‘Practice Direction’ means the Lord Chief Justice’s Criminal Practice Directions, as amended, and ‘Criminal Costs Practice Direction’ means the Lord Chief Justice’s Practice Direction (Costs in Criminal Proceedings), as amended;\n‘public interest ruling’ means a ruling about whether it is in the public interest to disclose prosecution material under sections 3(6), 7A(8) or 8(5) of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996; and\n‘Registrar’ means the Registrar of Criminal Appeals or a court officer exercising a function of the Registrar.\n(2) Special definitions and definitions of some other expressions are in the rules in which they apply.\n...",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 2.2 Note omitted (23.2.2026) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rule 2, Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 2.2 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2007 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 39; section 28 is substituted by section 3 of, and paragraph 26 of the Schedule to, the Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 (c. 33)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2012 c. 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2003 c. 44; section 51 was substituted by section 200 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2003 c. 41; section 206A was inserted by section 78 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26) and amended by section 208 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 20 to, the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1996 c. 25; section 7A was inserted by section 37 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/rule/2.2",
    "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."
}