{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-4.5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-4.5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/4.5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.5",
  "heading": "Service by document exchange",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where—\n(a) the person to be served—\n(i) has given a document exchange (DX) box number, and\n(ii) has not refused to accept service by DX; or\n(b) the person to be served is legally represented in the case and the legal representative has given a DX box number.\n(2) A document may be served by—\n(a) addressing it to that person or legal representative, as appropriate, at that DX box number; and\n(b) leaving it at—\n(i) the document exchange at which the addressee has that DX box number, or\n(ii) a document exchange at which the person serving it has a DX box number.\n(3) Where the person to be served under this rule is the court officer, the address for service is the relevant court office.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4.5 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/4.5",
    "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."
}