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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reports-relating-to-adult-witnesses-rules-2004/article-2",
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  "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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application for a reporting direction",
  "text": "(1) An application for a reporting direction made by a party to any criminal proceedings, in relation to a witness in those proceedings, must be made in writing in Form A or orally under rule 4.\n(2) If an application for a reporting direction is made in writing, the applicant shall send that application to the justices' chief executive for the court and copies shall be sent at the same time to every other party to those proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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/2004/2419/article/2",
    "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."
}