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# SENIOR COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES 

# 2020 No. 417 (L. 12) 

# MAGISTRATES’ COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES 

The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 

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The Criminal Procedure Rule Committee makes the following Rules under section 69 of the Courts Act 2003( a ), after consulting in accordance with section 72(1)(a) of that Act. 

## Citation, commencement, cessation and interpretation 

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 and shall come into force on 14th April 2020. 

2.  Rules 5, 6(a) and (b), 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14 cease to have effect when section 53 (and Schedule 23), section 54 (and Schedule 24) and section 55 (and Schedule 25) of the Coronavirus Act 2020( b ) expire. 

3.  Rules 6(c) and 12 cease to have effect when paragraph 6 of Schedule 8 to the Coronavirus Act 2020 expires. 

4.  In these Rules a reference to a Part or rule by number alone means the Part or rule so numbered in the Criminal Procedure Rules 2015( c ). 

## Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules 

5.  In Part 2 (Understanding and applying the Rules)— 

(a) in rule 2.2 (Definitions), for the definition of live link substitute— 

“‘live link’ means a live video link or a live audio link and: 

(i) ‘live video link’ means a live television link or other arrangement by which a person taking part in a hearing can see and hear, and be seen and heard by, everyone else who is taking part and who is not in the same place as that person, 

