{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-4A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-4A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981",
  "path": "rule/4A",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4A",
  "heading": "Documents served on the designated officer",
  "text": "(1) Unless the court otherwise directs, the designated officer may—\n(a) keep a document served in connection with an information, complaint or application; or\n(b) arrange for the whole or any part to be kept by the informant, complainant, applicant or some other appropriate person, subject to any conditions that the court may impose.\n(2) A person who under such arrangements keeps such a document must provide it for the court if and when the designated officer so requires.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 4A substituted for rules 4A, 4B (28.6.2021) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/626), rules 1(1), 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/552/rule/4A",
    "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."
}