{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-33.40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-33.40.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/33.40",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "33.40",
  "heading": "Consent orders",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where all the parties to restraint proceedings or receivership proceedings agree the terms in which an order should be made.\n(2) Any party may apply for a judgment or order in the terms agreed.\n(3) The Crown Court may deal with an application under paragraph (2) without a hearing.\n(4) Where this rule applies—\n(a) the order which is agreed by the parties must be drawn up in the terms agreed;\n(b) it must be expressed as being ‘By Consent’; and\n(c) it must be signed by the legal representative acting for each of the parties to whom the order relates or by the party if he is a litigant in person.\n(5) Where an application is made under this rule, then the requirements of any other rule as to the procedure for making an application do not apply.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 33.40 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/33.40",
    "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."
}