{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-26.5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-26.5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/26.5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "26.5",
  "heading": "Surrender of electronic communication devices by jurors",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where the court can order the members of a jury to surrender for a specified period any electronic communication devices that they possess.\n(2) The court may make such an order—\n(a) on application; or\n(b) on its own initiative.\n(3) A party who wants the court to make such an order must—\n(a) apply as soon as reasonably practicable;\n(b) notify each other party;\n(c) specify for what period any device should be surrendered; and\n(d) explain why—\n(i) the proposed order is necessary or expedient in the interest of justice, and\n(ii) the terms of the proposed order are a proportionate means of safeguarding those interests.\n[Note. See section 15A of the Juries Act 1974.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 26.5 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 23; section 15A was inserted by section 69 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/26.5",
    "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."
}