15Period for which Registrar required to retain recordings

15 Period for which Registrar required to retain recordings

(1)  The Registrar is to retain every recording made by the recording apparatus referred to in rule 12 of any proceedings or part of any proceedings –

(a) for the appropriate period; or

(b) for such other period as the Court or a judge may, in any particular case, direct.

(2)  For the purposes of this rule, the "appropriate period" means –

(a) in respect of proceedings heard before 1 January 2005 –

(i) in which a person has been sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment, a period equal to the length of that term; and

(ii) in which a person has been sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment but the execution of that term, or part of that term, has been suspended, a period equal to the aggregate of the period for which the sentence was suspended and the period of the term of imprisonment; and

(iii) in which a probation order has been made, a period equal to the aggregate of the period of that order and the period of any sentence of imprisonment imposed at the time of the making of the order; and

(iv) which are not covered by subparagraph (i) , (ii) or (iii) , a period of 3 years; and

(b) in respect of proceedings heard on or after 1 January 2005, a period of 50 years.