{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/19",
  "legislation_title": "Victims and Courts Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Appointment of Crown Prosecutors",
  "text": "(1) The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 1 (the Crown Prosecution Service)—\n(a) in subsection (3) omit “who has a general qualification (within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990)”;\n(b) after subsection (7) insert—\n“(8) Nothing in this section confers on a person designated for the purposes of subsection (3) who does not have a general qualification (within the meaning given by section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990)—\n(a) any rights of audience, or\n(b) any right to conduct litigation,\nfor the purposes of Part 3 of the Legal Services Act 2007 (reserved legal activities).\n(9) The following provisions of the Legal Services Act 2007 accordingly do not apply to such a person—\n(a) paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 3 (exemption for persons with statutory rights of audience), and\n(b) paragraph 2(3) of that Schedule (exemption for persons with statutory right to conduct litigation).”\n(3) In section 5 (conduct of prosecutions on behalf of the Crown Prosecution Service)—\n(a) in subsection (1) omit “but who has a general qualification (within the meaning of section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990)”;\n(b) after subsection (2) insert—\n“(3) Nothing in this section confers on a person appointed under subsection (1) who does not have a general qualification (within the meaning given by section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990)—\n(a) any rights of audience, or\n(b) any right to conduct litigation,\nfor the purposes of Part 3 of the Legal Services Act 2007 (reserved legal activities).\n(4) The following provisions of the Legal Services Act 2007 accordingly do not apply to such a person—\n(a) paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 3 (exemption for persons with statutory rights of audience), and\n(b) paragraph 2(3) of that Schedule (exemption for persons with statutory right to conduct litigation).”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 11 in force at 29.6.2026, see s. 18(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/19/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:41:27.867027+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."
}