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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-4-rules-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-71.2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2792",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-4-rules-2001",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/71.2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "71.2",
  "heading": "Order to attend court",
  "text": "(1) A judgment creditor may apply for an order requiring—\n(a) a judgment debtor; or\n(b) if a judgment debtor is a company or other corporation, an officer of that body,\nto attend court to provide information about—\n(i) the judgment debtor’s means; or\n(ii) any other matter about which information is needed to enforce a judgment or order.\n(2) An application under paragraph (1)—\n(a) may be made without notice; and\n(b) (i) must be issued in the court which made the judgment or order which it is sought to enforce, except that\n(ii) if the proceedings have since been transferred to a different court, it must be issued in that court.\n(3) The application notice must—\n(a) be in the form; and\n(b) contain the information\nrequired by the relevant practice direction.\n(4) An application under paragraph (1) may be dealt with by a court officer without a hearing.\n(5) If the application notice complies with paragraph (3), an order to attend court will be issued in the terms of paragraph (6).\n(6) A person served with an order issued under this rule must—\n(a) attend court at the time and place specified in the order;\n(b) when he does so, produce at court documents in his control which are described in the order; and\n(c) answer on oath such questions as the court may require.\n(7) An order under this rule will contain a notice in the following terms—\n“You must obey this order. If you do not, you may be sent to prison for contempt of court.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2792/schedule/2/paragraph/71.2",
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  "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."
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