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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-47.51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-47.51.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/47.51",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "47.51",
  "heading": "When this Section applies",
  "text": "This Section applies where a justice of the peace can make an order approving the grant or renewal of an authorisation under section 32A of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.\n[Note. Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, an order may be made approving a local authority officer’s authorisation for the use of surveillance or of a ‘covert human intelligence source’.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 47.51 substituted (6.4.2026) by The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 10(a)"
    }
  ],
  "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/47.51",
    "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."
}