{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-tainted-acquittals-rules-1997/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-tainted-acquittals-rules-1997/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1055",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996) (Tainted Acquittals) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-criminal-procedure-and-investigations-act-1996-tainted-acquittals-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Entry in register in relation to the conviction which occasioned certification",
  "text": "The clerk of a magistrates' court which makes a certification under section 54(2) of the Act shall enter in the register of the court, in relation to the conviction which occasioned the certification, a note of the fact that certification has been made, the date of certification, the name of the acquitted person referred to in the certification, a description of the offence of which the acquitted person has been acquitted, the date of the acquittal, and the name of the court before which the acquittal has taken place.",
  "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/1997/1055/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:09:51.089995+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."
}