{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-20.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-20.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/20.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "20.1",
  "heading": "When this Part applies",
  "text": "This Part applies in a magistrates’ court and in the Crown Court where a party wants to introduce hearsay evidence within the meaning of section 114 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.\n[Note. Under section 114 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, a statement not made in oral evidence is admissible as evidence of any matter stated if—\n(a) a statutory provision makes it admissible;\n(b) a rule of law preserved by section 118 makes it admissible;\n(c) the parties agree to it being admissible; or\n(d) it is in the interests of justice for it to be admissible.\nUnder section 115 of the Act—\n(a) a “statement” means any representation of fact or opinion, by any means, and includes a representation in pictorial form; and\n(b) a “matter stated” is something stated by someone with the apparent purpose of—\n(i) causing another person to believe it, or\n(ii) causing another person, or a machine, to act or operate on the basis that the matter is as stated.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 20.1 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 44."
    }
  ],
  "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/20.1",
    "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."
}