{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-47.14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-47.14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/47.14",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "47.14",
  "heading": "Content of application for an explanation order under the Terrorism Act 2000 or the National Security Act 2023",
  "text": "As well as complying with rules 47.6 and 47.11, an applicant who wants the court to make an explanation order must—\n(a) identify the material that the applicant wants the respondent to explain; and\n(b) propose the terms of the order.\n[Note. See paragraph 13 of Schedule 5 to the Terrorism Act 2000 and paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to the National Security Act 2023. The applicant for an explanation order may be a constable or, where the application concerns material produced to a counter-terrorism financial investigator, such an investigator.\nAn explanation order—\n(a) cannot require a person to disclose any information which the person would be entitled to refuse to disclose on grounds of legal professional privilege in the High Court; but\n(b) can require a lawyer to provide a client’s name and address.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 47.14 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 11; paragraph 13 of Schedule 5 was amended by section 65 of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39) and section 41(3)(d) of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (c. 22)."
    }
  ],
  "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/47.14",
    "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."
}