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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-disclosure-rules-1997/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/703",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996) (Disclosure) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-disclosure-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Public interest: non-disclosure order",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies to an order under section 3(6), 7(5), 8(5) or 9(8).\n(2) On making an order to which this rule applies, the court shall state its reasons for doing so.\n(3) In a case where such an order is a made following—\n(a) an application to which rule 2(4) applies, or\n(b) an application notice of which has been served on the accused in accordance with rule 2(3) but the accused has not appeared or been represented at the hearing of that application,\nthe clerk of the court shall notify the accused that an order has been made.",
  "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"
    },
    {
      "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/1997/703/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:13.324658+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."
}