{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-50.30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-50.30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/50.30",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "50.30",
  "heading": "Constitution of the High Court",
  "text": "(1) A master of the High Court or a deputy master may exercise any power of the High Court to which the rules in this Section apply, except the power to—\n(a) give or refuse permission to appeal;\n(b) determine an appeal;\n(c) reopen a decision which determines an appeal or an application for permission to appeal;\n(d) grant or withhold bail; or\n(e) impose or vary a condition of bail.\n(2) Despite paragraph (1), such a master or deputy master may exercise one of the powers listed in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (d) or (e) if making a decision to which the parties have agreed in writing.\n(3) A renewed application for permission to appeal to the High Court may be determined by—\n(a) a single judge of the High Court other than the judge who first refused permission, or\n(b) a divisional court.\n(4) An appeal may be determined by—\n(a) a single judge of the High Court; or\n(b) a divisional court.\n[Note. See sections 19 and 66 of the Senior Courts Act 1981.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 50.30 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 54."
    }
  ],
  "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/50.30",
    "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."
}