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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-evidence-act-1995/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-evidence-act-1995/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/38",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Evidence Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-evidence-act-1995",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“civil proceedings” has the meaning given by section 11 and “court” and “rules of court” shall be construed in accordance with that section;\n“document” means anything in which information of any description is recorded, and “copy”, in relation to a document, means anything onto which information recorded in the document has been copied, by whatever means and whether directly or indirectly;\n“hearsay” shall be construed in accordance with section 1(2);\n“oral evidence” includes evidence which, by reason of a defect of speech or hearing, a person called as a witness gives in writing or by signs;\n“the original statement”, in relation to hearsay evidence, means the underlying statement (if any) by—\n(a)in the case of evidence of fact, a person having personal knowledge of that fact, or\n(b)in the case of evidence of opinion, the person whose opinion it is; and\n“statement” means any representation of fact or opinion, however made.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/38/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:48.893326+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."
}