{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-66C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-66C.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981",
  "path": "rule/66C",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "66C",
  "heading": "Request for information by a party or person directly affected by a case",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where a party, or a person directly affected by a direction or order made or a warrant issued by the court, wants information about their case.\n(2) Such a party or person must—\n(a) ask the designated officer;\n(b) specify the information requested; and\n(c) pay any fee prescribed.\n(3) The request—\n(a) may be made orally or in writing, and need not explain why the information is requested, if this rule requires the designated officer to supply that information; but\n(b) must be in writing, unless the court otherwise permits, and must explain why the information is requested, if this rule does not so require.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the designated officer must supply to the party or person making the request—\n(a) information about the terms of any direction or order made, or warrant issued, which was—\n(i) served on, or addressed or directed to, that party or person, or\n(ii) made on an application by that party or person; and\n(b) information received from that party or person (which might be, for example, to establish what information the court holds, or in case of a loss of that information by the party or person making the request).\n(5) The designated officer must not supply the information requested if that information—\n(a) concerns the grounds on which a direction or order was made, or a warrant issued, in the absence of the party or person making the request; or\n(b) is not readily available to the designated officer (for example, because of the location or conditions of its storage).\n(6) Where the designated officer must supply the information requested the supply may be, at the choice of the party or person making the request—\n(a) by word of mouth;\n(b) in writing, including by written certificate or extract from a court record; or\n(c) by a copy of a document served by, or on, that party or person (but not of a document not so served).\n(7) Where this rule does not require the designated officer to supply the information requested—\n(a) the designated officer must refer the request to the court; and\n(b) rule 66D applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules 66A-66E substituted for rules 66A, 66B (28.6.2021) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/626), rules 1(1), 2(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/552/rule/66C",
    "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."
}