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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-notices-of-transfer-rules-1988/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1701",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Notices of Transfer) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-notices-of-transfer-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Variation of arrangements for bail",
  "text": "(1) A person who intends to make an application to a magistrates' court under section 3(8) of the Bail Act 1976 as that subsection has effect under section 3(8A) of that Act shall give notice thereof in writing to the clerk of the court to which the application is to be made, and to the designated authority or the defendant, as the case may be, and to any sureties concerned.\n(2) Where, on an application referred to in paragraph (1) above, a magistrates' court varies or imposes any conditions of bail the clerk of the court shall send to the appropriate officer of the Crown Court a copy of the record made in pursuance of section 5 of the Bail Act 1976 relating to such variation or imposition of conditions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 63; section 3(8A) was inserted by section 15 of and Sched. 2 to the Criminal Justice Act 1987."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
    },
    {
      "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)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1701/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:14.844591+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."
}