{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997.json",
  "id": "uksi/1997/704",
  "title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996) (Confidentiality) Rules 1997",
  "short_title": "Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996) (Confidentiality) 1997",
  "long_title": "These Rules provide for the practice and procedure to be followed in magistrates' courts in relation to—proceedings to deal with a contempt of court under section 18 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (“the 1996 Act”);applications under sections 17(4) and (6)(b) and 18(6) of the 1996 Act; andorders under sections 17(4) and 18(4) and (7) of the 1996 Act.",
  "citation": "S.I. 1997/704",
  "type": "uksi",
  "year": "1997",
  "number": "704",
  "version": "current",
  "date": "1997-03-10",
  "revised": false,
  "valid_from": null,
  "extent": null,
  "unapplied_effects": 11,
  "provisions": [
    {
      "path": "introduction",
      "kind": "introduction",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Introductory text",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997/introduction",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/1",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "1",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997/article-1",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/2",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "2",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997/article-2",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/3",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "3",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997/article-3",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/4",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "4",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997/article-4",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/5",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "5",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997/article-5",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "signature",
      "kind": "signature",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Signature",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997/signature",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "note",
      "kind": "note",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Explanatory note",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997/note",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    }
  ],
  "has_text": true,
  "pdfs": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "rule 2(2)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 134"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "rule 2(5)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 134"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "rule 4(2)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 134"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "rule 5(7)(c)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 134"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "rule 2(4)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 135"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "rule 3(2)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 1 para. 136"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "rule 2",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/384",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (revoked)",
      "affecting_provisions": "rule 26.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "rule 3",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/384",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (revoked)",
      "affecting_provisions": "rule 26.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "rule 4",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/384",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (revoked)",
      "affecting_provisions": "rule 26.3"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "rule 5",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/384",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (revoked)",
      "affecting_provisions": "rule 26.4"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affected_provisions": "Rules",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/617",
      "affecting_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2005",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. para. 169"
    }
  ],
  "made_under": [
    {
      "id": "ukpga/1980/43",
      "title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
      "provisions": [
        "section/144",
        "section/145"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ukpga/1996/25",
      "title": "Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996",
      "provisions": [
        "section/19"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "changes_made_to": 11,
  "changes_made_to_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997/changes.json",
  "changes_made_by": 0,
  "changes_made_by_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997/changes/by-it.json",
  "instruments_made_under": 0,
  "instruments_made_under_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-confidentiality-rules-1997/instruments.json",
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/704",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:12.287453+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."
}