{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-50.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-50.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/50.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "50.1",
  "heading": "When this Part applies",
  "text": "(1) This Part applies to extradition under Part 1 or Part 2 of the Extradition Act 2003.\n(2) Section 2 of this Part applies to proceedings in a magistrates’ court, and in that Section—\n(a) rules 50.3 to 50.7, 50.15 and 50.16 apply to extradition under Part 1 of the Act; and\n(b) rules 50.3, 50.4 and 50.8 to 50.16 apply to extradition under Part 2 of the Act.\n(3) Section 3 of this Part applies where—\n(a) a party wants to appeal to the High Court against an order by the magistrates’ court or by the Secretary of State; and\n(b) a party to an appeal to the High Court wants to appeal further to the Supreme Court under—\n(i) section 32 of the Act (appeal under Part 1 of the Act), or\n(ii) section 114 of the Act (appeal under Part 2 of the Act).\n(4) Section 4 of this Part applies to proceedings in a magistrates’ court under—\n(a) sections 54 and 55 of the Act (Request for consent to other offence being dealt with; Questions for decision at consent hearing); and\n(b) sections 56 and 57 of the Act (Request for consent to further extradition to category 1 territory; Questions for decision at consent hearing).\n(5) In this Part, and for the purposes of this Part in other rules—\n(a) ‘magistrates’ court’ means a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) exercising the powers to which Section 2 of this Part applies;\n(b) ‘presenting officer’ means an officer of the National Crime Agency, a police officer, a prosecutor or other person representing an authority or territory seeking the extradition of a defendant; and\n(c) ‘defendant’ means a person arrested under Part 1 or Part 2 of the Extradition Act 2003.\n[Note. The Extradition Act 2003 provides for the extradition of a person accused or convicted of a crime to the territory within which that person is accused, was convicted or is to serve a sentence.\nUnder Part 1 of the Act (sections 1 to 68), the magistrates’ court may give effect to a warrant for arrest issued by an authority in a territory designated for the purposes of that Part.\nUnder Part 2 of the Act (sections 69 to 141), the magistrates’ court and the Secretary of State may give effect to a request for extradition made under a treaty between the United Kingdom and the requesting territory.\nUnder sections 67 and 139 of the Extradition Act 2003, a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) must be designated for the purposes of the Act to exercise the powers to which Section 2 of this Part applies.\nThere are rights of appeal to the High Court from decisions of the magistrates’ court and of the Secretary of State: see Section 3 of this Part.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 50.1 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 41; sections 67 and 139 were amended by section 15 of, and paragraphs 352 and 353 of Schedule 4 to, the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4) and section 42 of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 13 to, the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48)."
    }
  ],
  "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/50.1",
    "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."
}