{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-47.52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-47.52.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/47.52",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "47.52",
  "heading": "Exercise of court’s powers",
  "text": "(1) Rule 47.5 (Investigation orders; Exercise of court’s powers) applies, subject to section 32B(2) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.\n(2) Where a magistrates’ court refuses to approve the grant ... or renewal of an authorisation ..., the court must not exercise its power to quash that authorisation ... unless the applicant has had at least 2 business days from the date of the refusal in which to make representations.\n[Note. Under section 32B(2) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, the applicant is not required to give notice of an application to any person to whom the authorisation or notice relates, or to such a person’s legal representatives. See also section 32B(3) of the 2000 Act.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 47.52(1) substituted (6.4.2026) by The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 10(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 47.52(2) omitted (6.4.2026) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 10(b)(ii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 47.52(2) omitted (6.4.2026) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 10(b)(ii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 47.52 Note substituted (6.4.2026) by The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 10(b)(iii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 47.52 Note substituted (6.4.2026) by The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/47), rules 3, 10(b)(iii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 47.52 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 23; section 23B was inserted by section 37 and section 32B by section 38 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9)."
    }
  ],
  "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/47.52",
    "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."
}