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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/summary-appeal-court-youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999-rules-2015/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1813",
  "legislation_title": "The Summary Appeal Court (Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999) Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/summary-appeal-court-youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999-rules-2015",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules—\n“the 1999 Act” means the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999;\n“the 2006 Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2006;\n“SAC Rules” means the Armed Forces (Summary Appeal Court) Rules 2009;\n“appeal proceedings” means proceedings under section 146 of the 2006 Act for the hearing of an appeal;\n“appellant” means a person bringing an appeal under section 141 of the 2006 Act;\n“the Director” means the Director of Service Prosecutions;\n“the judge advocate” means the judge advocate specified for the proceedings under section 142(3) of the 2006 Act;\n“legal representative” means a person appointed under rule 41 of the SAC Rules;\n“person concerned in the proceedings” means—\n(a) in relation to an application in any proceedings for a direction under section 45(3), or an excepting direction under section 45(4) or (5), of the 1999 Act, a person falling within section 45(7) of that Act;\n(b) in relation to an application in any proceedings for a reporting direction under section 45A(2), or an excepting direction under section 45A(10), of the 1999 Act, a person falling within section 45A(3) of that Act;\n(c) in relation to an application in any proceedings for a reporting direction under section 46(2), or an excepting direction under section 46(9), of the 1999 Act, a witness falling within section 46(1) of that Act;\n“reporting direction” means, unless otherwise specified, a reporting direction under section 45A(2) or 46(2) of the 1999 Act.\n(2) A reference in these Rules to proceedings has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the SAC Rules.\n(3) A reference in these Rules to a party to any proceedings has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the SAC Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/1211, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1813/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:31:13.673582+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."
}