{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-41.5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-41.5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/41.5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "41.5",
  "heading": "Variation or withdrawal of notice of reference or application for permission",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where the Attorney General wants to vary or withdraw—\n(a) a notice of reference; or\n(b) an application for permission to refer a sentencing case.\n(2) The Attorney General—\n(a) may vary or withdraw the notice or application without the court’s permission by serving notice on—\n(i) the Registrar, and\n(ii) the defendant\nbefore any hearing of the reference or application; but\n(b) at any such hearing, may only vary or withdraw that notice or application with the court’s permission.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 41.5 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/41.5",
    "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."
}