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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-reports-relating-to-adult-witnesses-rules-2004/article-6",
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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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Variation or revocation",
  "text": "(1) An application for the court to–\n(a) revoke a reporting direction; or\n(b) vary or revoke an excepting direction,\nmay be made to the court at any time after the commencement of the proceedings in the court.\n(2) An application under paragraph (1) may be made by a party to the proceedings in which the direction was issued, or by a person who, although not a party to those proceedings, is in the opinion of the court directly affected by the direction.\n(3) An application must be made in writing and the applicant shall send that application to the justices' chief executive for the court in which the proceedings commenced, and at the same time copies of that application must be sent to every party or, as the case may be, every party to the proceedings.\n(4) The applicant must set out in his application the reasons why he seeks to have the direction varied or, as the case may be, revoked.\n(5) Any person served with a copy of the application who wishes to oppose the application must notify the applicant and the justices' chief executive for the court in writing of his opposition and give reasons for it.\n(6) The notification under paragraph (5) must be given within five business days of the date the application was served on him unless an extension of time is granted under rule 7.",
  "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/2004/2419/article/6",
    "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."
}