{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2001/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2001/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/253",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules.)\nThese Rules amend the Crown Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1979 to—\n(a) prescribe the time when, and the manner in which, a legal representative is to be appointed to act for the defendant for the purpose of cross-examining any witness which the defendant is prevented from cross-examining in person by virtue of Article 22 or Article 23 of the Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1999;\n(b) provide for the appointment by the Court of a qualified legal representative where the defendant fails to appoint a legal representative to act for him;\n(c) make a minor amendment to rule 54(2)(b) to take account of the additional powers conferred on financial investigators by the Financial Investigations (Northern Ireland) Order 2001.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/253/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:04.305354+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."
}