{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-crime-international-co-operation-rules-2004/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1048",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Crime (International Co-operation)) Rules 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-crime-international-co-operation-rules-2004",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Persons entitled to appear and take part in proceedings under Schedule 1 and exclusion of public",
  "text": "Where the court nominated under section 15(1) of the Act (nominating a court to receive evidence) is a magistrates' court, the court may —\n(a) determine who may appear or take part in the proceedings under Schedule 1 to the Act before the court and whether a party to the proceedings is entitled to be legally represented; and\n(b) direct that the public be excluded from those proceedings if it thinks it necessary to do so in the interests of justice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "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/2004/1048/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:27:49.773128+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."
}