{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-7.5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025/rule-7.5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2025",
  "path": "rule/7.5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "7.5",
  "heading": "Notice of defendant in custody",
  "text": "(1) This rule and rule 7.6 (Arrangements for court to receive defendant in custody) apply where—\n(a) a defendant in custody must be brought before a court—\n(i) under section 46 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Detention after charge), or\n(ii) after arrest on a warrant issued under section 1 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (Issue of summons to accused or warrant for his arrest); and\n(b) a police custody officer so notifies the court officer.\n(2) The police custody officer must provide the court officer with—\n(a) the defendant’s name and date of birth;\n(b) the offence charged and confirmation of the date and time of charge;\n(c) confirmation that the information required by rule 8.3 (Content of initial details) is available and will be served before the defendant’s case is heard;\n(d) confirmation that the prosecutor has been notified;\n(e) confirmation that the following have been notified and are available—\n(i) any interpreter required,\n(ii) the defendant’s legal representative, if any, and\n(iii) any local or other authority, including any youth offending team, responsible for the defendant’s care or welfare;\n(f) the police custody officer’s proposal for the means by which the defendant will be brought before the court, either by live link or in person, and—\n(i) if the proposal is for the defendant to attend court by live link, details of any material circumstance listed in rule 3.35 (Live link direction: exercise of court’s powers), or\n(ii) if the proposal is for the defendant to attend court in person, the identity of the authority responsible for transporting the defendant and the expected time of arrival; and\n(g) details of any disability or other vulnerability of the defendant of which the police custody officer is aware and which is not apparent from other information supplied.\n[Note. Under section 46 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 a defendant who is charged with an offence and, after being charged, is kept in police or local authority detention must be brought before a magistrates’ court as soon as is practicable that day, or the next day which is not Christmas Day, Good Friday or a Sunday.]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 7.5 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 60; section 46 was amended by section 109 of, and paragraph 282 of Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 43; section 1 was amended by section 68 of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), sections 43 and 109 of, and Schedule 10 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), section 31 of, and paragraph 12 of Schedule 7 to, the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), section 153 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), section 50 of, and paragraphs 2 and 3 of Schedule 11 to, the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2) and section 67 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 12 to, the Space Industry Act 2018 (c. 5). It is further amended by paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 36 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), with effect from a date to be appointed."
    }
  ],
  "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/7.5",
    "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."
}