{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-44.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-44.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/44.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "44.1",
  "heading": "When this Part applies",
  "text": "This Part applies in a magistrates’ court where—\n(a) under section 14 or section 16E of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, the defendant makes a statutory declaration of not having found out about the case until after the trial began;\n(b) under section 16M of the 1980 Act the court can set aside a conviction; or\n(c) under section 142 of the 1980 Act, the court can—\n(i) set aside a conviction, or\n(ii) vary or rescind a costs order, or an order to which Part 31 applies (Behaviour orders).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 44.1 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 14 was amended by section 109 of, and paragraph 205 of Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39). Section 16E was inserted by section 48 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 16M was inserted by section 3 of the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 142 was amended by sections 26 and 29 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 (c. 35)."
    }
  ],
  "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/44.1",
    "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."
}