{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-confiscation-restraint-and-receivership-rules-2003/rule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-confiscation-restraint-and-receivership-rules-2003/rule-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/421",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Court (Confiscation, Restraint and Receivership) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-confiscation-restraint-and-receivership-rules-2003",
  "path": "rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n(a) “the Act” means the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002;\n(b) “business day” means any day other than—\n(i) a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day or Good Friday; or\n(ii) a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, in England and Wales;\n(c) “court officer” means a member of the Crown Court staff;\n(d) “document” means anything in which information of any description is recorded;\n(e) “hearsay evidence” means evidence consisting of hearsay within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Civil Evidence Act 1995;\n(f) “restraint proceedings” means proceedings under sections 42 and 58(2) and (3) of the Act;\n(g) “receivership proceedings” means proceedings under sections 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54(4), 56(4), 59(2) and (3), 60(2) and (3), 62 and 63 of the Act;\n(h) “witness statement” means a written statement signed by a person which contains the evidence, and only that evidence, which that person would be allowed to give orally;\n(i) words and expressions used have the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c. 38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/384",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/421/rule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:26.245991+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."
}