Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015

4.  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 1998(1) (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 2018(2) (sections 43(3) and 117 of which make exceptions for criminal proceedings from some other provisions of that Act); and; 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 2003(3), 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..

(1)

1998 c. 29; the Act is repealed, subject to transitional and saving provisions, with effect from 25th May, 2018.