{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-justice-international-co-operation-rules-1991/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-justice-international-co-operation-rules-1991/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1074",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Justice (International Co-operation)) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-justice-international-co-operation-rules-1991",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Notice of application for letters of request",
  "text": "Notice of an application under section 3(1) (overseas evidence for use in the United Kingdom) of the Act shall be given to the justices' clerk of a magistrates' court and shall—\n(a) be made in writing, save that the court may in exceptional circumstances dispense with the need for notice;\n(b) state that the particulars of the offence which it is alleged has been committed or the grounds upon which it is suspected that an offence has been committed;\n(c) state whether proceedings in respect of the offence have been instituted or the offence is being investigated; and\n(d) include particulars of the assistance requested in the form of a draft letter of request.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1074/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:45:05.206651+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."
}