{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-31.3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-31.3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/31.3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "31.3",
  "heading": "Application for behaviour order and notice of terms of proposed order: special rules",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where—\n(a) a prosecutor applies to the court to make one of the following orders ...—\n(i) a serious crime prevention order,\n(ii) a knife crime prevention order,\n(iii) a criminal behaviour order,\n(iv) a serious violence reduction order, or\n(v) a serious disruption prevention order;\n(b) on the prosecutor’s initiative, or at the court’s request, a prosecutor proposes that the court make one of the following orders if the defendant is convicted—\n(i) a football banning order with additional requirements,\n(ii) a prohibition order,\n(iii) a labour market enforcement order,\n(iv) a sexual harm prevention order, or\n(v) a parenting order;\n(c) on the prosecutor’s initiative, or at the court’s request, a prosecutor proposes that the court make one of the following orders whether the defendant is convicted or not—\n(i) a restraining order,\n(ii) a female genital mutilation protection order,\n(iii) a slavery and trafficking prevention order, ...\n(iv) a domestic abuse protection order.\n(v) a stalking protection order, or\n(vi) a child criminal exploitation prevention order.\n(2) Where paragraph (1)(a) applies (order on application), the prosecutor must serve a notice of intention to apply for such an order on—\n(a) the court officer;\n(b) the defendant against whom the prosecutor wants the court to make the order; and\n(c) any person on whom the order would be likely to have a significant adverse effect,\nas soon as practicable (without waiting for the verdict).\n(3) A notice under paragraph (2) must—\n(a) summarise the relevant facts;\n(b) identify the evidence on which the prosecutor relies in support;\n(c) attach any written statement that the prosecutor has not already served; and\n(d) specify the order that the prosecutor wants the court to make.\n(4) A defendant served with a notice under paragraph (2) must—\n(a) serve notice of any evidence on which the defendant relies on—\n(i) the court officer, and\n(ii) the prosecutor,\nas soon as practicable (without waiting for the verdict); and\n(b) in the notice, identify that evidence and attach any written statement that has not already been served.\n(5) Where paragraph (1)(b) or (c) applies (order proposed), the prosecutor must—\n(a) serve a draft order on the court officer and on the defendant as soon as practicable and in any event before the hearing at which the order may be made; and\n(b) in the draft order specify those prohibitions, requirements or both which the prosecutor proposes to satisfy the statutory provisions that allow the court to make the order.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n[Note. The orders listed in rule 31.3(1)(a) may be made on application by the prosecutor. The orders to which rule 31.3(1)(b) and (c) apply require no application and may be made on the court’s own initiative. Under section 8 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 a serious crime prevention order may be made only on an application by the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Director of the Serious Fraud Office. See also paragraphs 2, 7 and 13 of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Act.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nIf a party relies on hearsay evidence, see also rules 31.6, 31.7, and 31.8.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 31.3(1) substituted (6.4.2026) by The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 9(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 31.3(1)(a) substituted (5.10.2026) by The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/721), rules 2, 14(b)(i)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 31.3(1)(a) omitted (5.10.2026) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/721), rules 2, 14(b)(i)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in rule 31.3(1)(c)(iii) omitted (5.10.2026) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/721), rules 2, 14(b)(ii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Rule 31.3(1)(c)(v)(vi) inserted (5.10.2026) by The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/721), rules 2, 14(b)(ii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Rule 31.3(5) substituted (6.4.2026) by The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 9(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Rule 31.3(6) omitted (6.4.2026) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 9(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Rule 31.3(7) omitted (6.4.2026) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 9(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Rule 31.3(8) omitted (6.4.2026) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 9(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in rule 31.3 Note substituted (6.4.2026) by The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 9(c)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in rule 31.3 Note omitted (6.4.2026) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 9(c)(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 31.3 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/31.3",
    "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."
}