{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-3B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-3B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981",
  "path": "rule/3B",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3B",
  "heading": "Live links",
  "text": "(1) The court may exercise its power to allow or require anyone, including any member or members of the court, to take part in proceedings by live link—\n(a) on application or on the court’s own initiative; and\n(b) as long as the court is satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to exercise that power in that way.\n(2) Unless the court otherwise directs—\n(a) a person who takes part in proceedings by live link must be treated as present; and\n(b) where a member of the court takes part in proceedings by live link those proceedings must be treated as taking place—\n(i) at any place at which the court lawfully can sit in England and Wales, and\n(ii) at any such place as the designated officer advertises under rule 66E(2)(a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 3B inserted (28.6.2021) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/626), rules 1(1), 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/552/rule/3B",
    "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."
}