The Criminal Procedure Rules 2010

Service of a copy of the certification

40.3.  Where a magistrates’ court or the Crown Court makes a certification as referred to in section 54(2) of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, the court officer shall, as soon as practicable after the drawing up of the form, serve a copy on the acquitted person referred to in the certification, on the prosecutor in the proceedings which led to the acquittal, and, where the acquittal has taken place before a court other than, or at a different place to, the court where the certification has been made, on—

(a) the clerk of the magistrates’ court before which the acquittal has taken place; or

(b) the Crown Court officer at the place where the acquittal has taken place.