Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 20154
In Part 5 (Forms and court records)—
a
in the note to rule 5.8 (Supply to the public, including reporters, of information about cases), for sub-paragraph (e) substitute—
e
the Data Protection Act 199816 (sections 34 and 35 of the Act contain relevant exemptions from prohibitions against disclosure that usually apply) and Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 201817 (sections 43(3) and 117 of which make exceptions for criminal proceedings from some other provisions of that Act); and
b
after the second paragraph of the note to rule 5.9 (Supply of written certificate or extract from records) insert—
Under section 92 of the Sexual Offences Act 200318, a certificate which records a conviction for an offence and a statement by the convicting court that that offence is listed in Schedule 3 to the Act is evidence of those facts for certain purposes of that Act.