{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-74",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-74.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981",
  "path": "rule/74",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Documents to be sent to Crown Court",
  "text": "(1) A designated officer for a magistrates' court shall as soon as practicable send to the appropriate officer of the Crown Court any notice of appeal to the Crown Court given to the designated officer for the court.\n(2) The designated officer for a magistrates' court shall send to the appropriate officer of the Crown Court, with the notice of appeal, a copy of the extract of the magistrates' court register relating to that decision and of the last known or usual place of abode of the parties to the appeal.\n(3) Where any person, having given notice of appeal to the Crown Court, has been granted bail for the purposes of the appeal the designated officer for the court from whose decision the appeal is brought shall before the day fixed for the hearing of the appeal send to the appropriate officer of the Crown Court—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) in the case of bail otherwise than in criminal proceedings, the recognizance entered into by the appellant relating to such bail.\n(4) Where, in any such case as is referred to in paragraph 3(b), the recognizance in question has been entered into otherwise than before the magistrates' court from whose decision the appeal is brought, or the designated officer for that court, the person who took the recognizance shall send it forthwith to that designated officer.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 74(1)-(7) 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": "Words in rule 74(2) substituted (24.5.1993) by The Magistrates' Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1993 (S.I. 1993/1183), rules 1, 3(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 74(3)(a) omitted (28.6.2021) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/626), rules 1(1), 2(12)(k)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 74(4) substituted (1.4.2005) by The Courts Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/617), art. 1, Sch. para. 75"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Rule 74(5)-(7) omitted (28.6.2021) by virtue of The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/626), rules 1(1), 2(12)(k)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 74 replaced (4.4.2005) by The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/384), rule 63.3 (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 74 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/74",
    "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."
}