{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankers-books-evidence-act-1879/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankers-books-evidence-act-1879/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/42-43/11",
  "legislation_title": "Bankers’ Books Evidence Act 1879",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankers-books-evidence-act-1879",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Interpretation of “legal proceeding,” “court,” “judge.”",
  "text": "In this Act—\nThe expression “legal proceeding” means any civil or criminal proceeding or inquiry in which evidence is or may be given, and includes\n(a) an arbitration;\n(b) an application to, or an inquiry or other proceeding before, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal or any body exercising functions in relation to solicitors in Scotland or Northern Ireland corresponding to the functions of that Tribunal; and\n(c) an investigation, consideration or determination of a complaint by a member of the panel of ombudsmen for the purposes of the ombudsman scheme within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.\nThe expression “the court” means the court, judge, arbitrator, persons or person before whom a legal proceeding is held or taken;\nThe expression “a judge” means with respect to England a judge of the High Court, and with respect to Scotland a lord ordinary of the Outer House of the Court of Session, and with respect to Ireland a judge of the High Court in Northern Ireland;\nA judge of the county court may with respect to any action in such court exercise the powers of a judge under this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 10(a)-(c) substituted (9.6.1997) for words in s. 10 by 1997 c. 32, s. 45(1); S.I. 1997/1427, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 10: para. (c) in the definition of “legal proceedings”substituted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649, arts. 1, 266"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. & O. 1921/1802 (Rev. XVI, p. 954: 1921, p. 1332), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 10 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 14; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "References to Ireland to be construed as exclusive of Republic of Ireland: S.R. & O. 1923/405 (Rev. X, p. 298: 1923, p. 400), art. 2"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/42-43/11/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:44:47.718696+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."
}