{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-107",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-107.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981",
  "path": "rule/107",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "107",
  "heading": "Application for summons to witness or warrant for his arrest",
  "text": "(1) An application for the issue of a summons or warrant under section 97 or 97A of the Act of 1980 or paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the Act of 1998 may be made by the applicant in person or by his counsel or solicitor.\n(2) An application for the issue of such a summons may be made by delivering or sending the application in writing to the designated officer for the magistrates' court ....",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 107 inserted (1.4.1997) by The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 1997 (S.I. 1997/706), rules 1(1), 16 (with rule 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 107 inserted (15.1.2001) by The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/3361), rules 1, 2(8), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 107(2) substituted (1.4.2001) by The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/610), rules 1, 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Rules substituted (1.4.2005) by The Courts Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/617), art. 1, Sch. para. 85"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 107(2) omitted (24.5.1983) by virtue of The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment) Rules 1983 (S.I. 1983/523), rule 1, Sch. para. 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 107 replaced (4.4.2005) by The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/384), rule 28.1 (with rule 2.1); [Editorial note: This rule, the substance of which is reproduced in and referred to by the Criminal Procedure Rules, is revoked when those Rules come into force by virtue of the provisions of 2003 c. 39, S.I. 2004/2066 and S.I. 2004/2035, see CrimPR rule 2.1 note.]"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 107 in force at 6.7.1981, see rule 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/552/rule/107",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:40:56.682539+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."
}