{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-26.3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-26.3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/26.3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "26.3",
  "heading": "Provision of information for jurors",
  "text": "The court officer must arrange for each juror to receive—\n(a) by such means as the Lord Chancellor directs, general information about jury service and about a juror’s responsibilities;\n(b) written notice of the prohibitions against—\n(i) research by a juror into the case,\n(ii) disclosure by a juror of any such research to another juror during the trial,\n(iii) conduct by a juror which suggests that that juror intends to try the case otherwise than on the evidence, and\n(iv) disclosure by a juror of the deliberations of the jury; and\n(c) written warning that breach of those prohibitions is an offence, for which the penalty is imprisonment or a fine or both, and may be a contempt of court.\n[Note. See sections 20A, 20B, 20C and 20D of the Juries Act 1974.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 26.3 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 23; sections 20A, 20B, 20C and 20D were inserted by sections 71, 72, 73 and 74 respectively of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2)."
    }
  ],
  "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/26.3",
    "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."
}