{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-5.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-5.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/5.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5.1",
  "heading": "Applications, etc. by forms or electronic means",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where a rule, a practice direction or the court requires a person to—\n(a) make an application or give a notice;\n(b) supply information for the purposes of case management by the court; or\n(c) supply information needed for other purposes by the court.\n(2) Unless the court otherwise directs, such a person must—\n(a) use such electronic arrangements as the court officer may make for that purpose, in accordance with those arrangements; or\n(b) if no such arrangements have been made, use the appropriate form issued under the Practice Direction or the Criminal Costs Practice Direction, in accordance with those Directions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 5.1 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    }
  ],
  "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/5.1",
    "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."
}