{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-66.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981",
  "path": "rule/66",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Register in civil proceedings",
  "text": "(1) The designated officer for every magistrates' court shall keep a register in which there shall be entered—\n(a) a minute or memorandum of every adjudication of the court;\n(b) a minute or memorandum of every other proceeding or thing required by these rules or any other enactment to be so entered.\n(2) The register may be stored in electronic form on the court computer system and entries in the register shall include, where relevant, the following particulars—\n(a) the name of the informant, complainant or applicant;\n(b) the name and date of birth (if known) of the defendant or respondent;\n(c) the nature of offence, matter of complaint or details of the application;\n(d) the date of offence or matter of complaint;\n(e) the plea or consent to order; and\n(f) the minute of adjudication.\n(3) Where an entry in the register appears to be incorrect the designated officer must correct it if—\n(a) the parties agree on the terms of the correction; or\n(b) the court or a justices’ legal adviser so directs.\n(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) Where a court has power under section 53(3) of the Act of 1980 to make an order with the consent of the defendant without hearing evidence, the court shall cause any consent of the defendant to the making of the order to be entered in the register.\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n10A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(11A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 66(1) substituted (1.4.2001) by The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/610), rules 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "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": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 66(2) substituted (20.6.2003) by The Magistrates' Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1236), rules 1, 32(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 66(3) substituted (8.4.2024) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/254), rules 1(2), 2(9)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Rule 66(3A)-(7) omitted (8.4.2024) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/254), rules 1(2), 2(9)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Rule 66(9)-(10B) omitted (8.4.2024) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/254), rules 1(2), 2(9)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Rule 66(11)(11A) omitted (20.6.2003) by virtue of The Magistrates' Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1236), rules 1, 32(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Rule 66(12) omitted (28.6.2021) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/626), rules 1(1), 2(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Rule 66 heading substituted (8.4.2024) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/254), rules 1(2), 2(9)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 66 replaced (4.4.2005) by The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/384), rule 6.1 (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": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Rule 66 applied (6.4.2011) by The Family Procedure Rules 2010 (S.I. 2010/2955), rule 9.2 (with rules 2.1, 9.1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 66 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/66",
    "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."
}