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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-appeals-under-part-2-order-2003/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/82",
  "legislation_title": "The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Appeals under Part 2) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-appeals-under-part-2-order-2003",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Right of defendant to be present",
  "text": "(1) The defendant shall be entitled to be present, if he wishes it, on the hearing of any appeal to the Court of Appeal under Part 2 of the Act to which he is a party, although he may be in custody.\n(2) But if the defendant is in custody, he shall not be entitled to be present—\n(a) where the appeal is on some ground involving a question of law alone; or\n(b) on an application for leave to appeal; or\n(c) on any proceedings preliminary or incidental to an appeal,\nunless the Court of Appeal gives him leave to be present.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/24",
      "affecting_title": "The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Appeals Under Part 2) (Amendment) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/24",
      "affecting_title": "The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Appeals Under Part 2) (Amendment) Order 2013"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/82/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:33:42.128644+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."
}