{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-47.21/enacted",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-47.21/enacted.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/enacted",
  "path": "rule/47.21",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "47.21",
  "heading": "Content of application for a customer information order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002",
  "text": "As well as complying with rules 47.6 and 47.17, an applicant who wants the court to make a customer information order must—\n(a) explain why customer information about the person under investigation is likely to be of substantial value to that investigation;\n(b) explain why it is in the public interest for the information to be provided, having regard to the benefit likely to accrue to the investigation if it is obtained; and\n(c) propose the terms of the order.\n[Note. See sections 363, 364, 365 and 368 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002and articles 22, 23, 24 and 27 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Investigations) Order 2014.\nA Crown Court judge may make a customer information order for the purposes of a confiscation investigation or a money laundering investigation.\nThe applicant for a customer information order must be an ‘appropriate officer’ as defined by section 378(1), (4) and (5) of the 2002 Act and article 2(1) of the 2014 Order.\n‘Customer information’ is defined by section 364 of the 2002 Act and article 2(1) of the 2014 Order.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 47.21 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 29; section 363 was amended by section 77 of, and paragraphs 1 and 11 of Schedule 10 to, the Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27), section 169 of, and paragraphs 1 and 16 of Schedule 19 to, the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25) and section 49 of, and paragraphs 1 and 10 of Schedule 19 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22). Section 364 was amended by section 107 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 27) and article 2(1) of, and paragraph 196 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2009/1941."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/909/rule/47.21",
    "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."
}