{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-3.34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-3.34.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/3.34",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3.34",
  "heading": "Use of Welsh language at Crown Court trial",
  "text": "Where a Crown Court trial will take place in Wales and a participant wishes to use the Welsh language—\n(a) that participant must serve notice on the court officer, or arrange for such a notice to be served on that participant’s behalf—\n(i) at or before the plea and trial preparation hearing, or\n(ii) in accordance with any direction given by the court; and\n(b) if such a notice is served, the court officer must arrange for an interpreter to attend.\n[Note. See section 22 of the Welsh Language Act 1993.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 3.34 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 38."
    }
  ],
  "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/3.34",
    "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."
}