{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prosecution-of-offences-youth-courts-time-limits-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prosecution-of-offences-youth-courts-time-limits-regulations-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2743",
  "legislation_title": "The Prosecution of Offences (Youth Courts Time Limits) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prosecution-of-offences-youth-courts-time-limits-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Overall time limit",
  "text": "In any case where a person’s first appearance in a relevant court in connection with an offence is fixed to take place on or after 1st November 1999, the maximum period to be allowed to the prosecution for the completion of the stage beginning with the date fixed for that appearance and ending with the start of his trial in a relevant court in connection with the offence shall be 99 days.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2743/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:17.762062+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."
}