{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-95A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981/rule-95A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-1981",
  "path": "rule/95A",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "95A",
  "heading": "Warrant issued out of hours",
  "text": "Where a warrant is issued by a justice of the peace for any local justice area at a time when the office of the designated officer for that area is closed, the applicant for the warrant shall within 72 hours serve upon the designated officer any information on which the warrant was issued.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 95A inserted (24.5.1993) by The Magistrates' Courts (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1993 (S.I. 1993/1183), rules 1, 3(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 95A substituted (1.4.2005) by The Courts Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/617), art. 1, Sch. para. 82"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 95A substituted (1.4.2001) by The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/610), rules 1, 22(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "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": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 95A substituted (1.4.2001) by The Magistrates' Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/610), rules 1, 22(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 95A replaced (4.4.2005) by The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/384), rule 18.2 (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.]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/552/rule/95A",
    "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."
}