{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/section-80A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/section-80A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/60",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984",
  "path": "section/80A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "80A",
  "heading": "Rule where accused’s spouse or civil partner not compellable.",
  "text": "The failure of the spouse or civil partner of a person charged in any proceedings to give evidence in the proceedings shall not be made the subject of any comment by the prosecution.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 80A substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 261(1), 263, Sch. 27 para. 98(a); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 80A inserted (24.7.2002 for E.W.) by 1999 c. 23, s. 67(1), Sch. 4 para. 14 (with Sch. 7 paras. 3(3), 5(2)); S.I. 2002/1739, art. 2(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 80A: words in heading inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 261(1), 263, Sch. 27 para. 98(b); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "S. 80A extends to England and Wales only with exceptions as regards courts martial, see s. 120(1)(6)-(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/section/80A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:58.179601+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."
}