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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reports-relating-to-adult-witnesses-rules-2004/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reports-relating-to-adult-witnesses-rules-2004/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2419",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Reports Relating to Adult Witnesses) Rules 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reports-relating-to-adult-witnesses-rules-2004",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Reports Relating to Adult Witnesses) Rules 2004 and shall come into force on 7 October 2004.\n(2) In these Rules–\n“the Act” means the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999;\n“application for a reporting direction” is an application for a direction referred to in section 46(6) of the Act;\n“application for an excepting direction” is an application for a direction referred to in section 46(9) of the Act;\n“business day” means any day other than–\n(i) a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day or Good Friday; or\n(ii) a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in England and Wales;\n“court” means the Magistrates' Court.\n(3) Reference to a form is a reference to a form set out in the Schedule to these Rules or a form with the same effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2419/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:18:28.311623+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."
}