{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-1983/schedule/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-1983/schedule/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/523",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-amendment-rules-1983",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Rule 70—\n(a) in paragraph (2) after the word “notice” there shall be inserted the words “by or on behalf of the prosecutor”;\n(b) for paragraph (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(5) If it appears to a magistrates' court that any part of a written statement is inadmissible there shall be written against that part—\n(a) in the case of a written statement tendered in evidence under the said section 102 the words “Treated as inadmissible” together with the signature and name of the examining justice or, where there is more than one examining justice, the signature and name of one of the examining justices by whom the statement is so treated;\n(b) in the case of a written statement tendered in evidence under the said section 9 the words “Ruled inadmissible” together with the signature and name of the justice or, where there is more than one justice, the signature and name of one of the justices who ruled the statement to be inadmissible.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/523/schedule/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:03:48.248383+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."
}