{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-25.3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-25.3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/25.3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "25.3",
  "heading": "Application for ruling on procedure, evidence or other question of law",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies to an application—\n(a) about—\n(i) case management, or any other question of procedure, or\n(ii) the introduction or admissibility of evidence, or any other question of law; and\n(b) that has not been determined before the trial begins.\n(2) The application is subject to any other rule that applies to it (for example, as to the time and form in which the application must be made).\n(3) Unless the court otherwise directs, the application must be made, and the court’s decision announced, in the absence of the jury (if there is one).\n[Note. See also rule 3.21 (Pre-trial hearings in the Crown Court: general rules).]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 25.3 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    }
  ],
  "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/25.3",
    "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."
}