{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-notification-orders-rules-2004/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-notification-orders-rules-2004/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1052",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Notification Orders) Rules 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-notification-orders-rules-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules provide forms which may be used for applications for notification orders and interim notification orders under sections 97 and 100 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. They also provide forms for the summons to be served on the defendant in relation to such applications and the forms which should be used for the orders themselves. The Rules also provide for service of the orders and provide that a notice requiring proof that the condition in section 99(1)(b) is met should be served not later than 3 days before the date of the hearing of the application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1052/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:27:47.116212+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."
}