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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-44",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/110",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Consolidation) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Calling of diet",
  "text": "(1) The diet shall (if section 77A(3) and the proviso to section 77A(4) do not apply) be held in open court in the presence of all parties, and shall be commenced by the calling of the diet.\n(2) On the calling of the diet the prosecutor shall inform the court—\n(a) whether any other cases have been set down for trial at the sitting in respect of which the application for postponement of the trial diet is made, and\n(b) whether a warrant has been issued under section 69 for a subsequent sitting of the court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/110/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:12:46.518890+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}