{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-army-rules-2007/rule-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-army-rules-2007/rule-32.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3442",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts-Martial (Army) Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-martial-army-rules-2007",
  "path": "rule/32",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Service of witness summonses",
  "text": "(1) A witness summons issued under rule 24(2) or rule 28(1) shall be served on a witness—\n(a) by delivering it to him personally;\n(b) by leaving it for him with a person at the witness’s usual place of abode;\n(c) by post in a letter addressed to him at his last known or usual place of abode;\n(d) transmitting it to him by fax or other electronic means, but only if he has agreed to accept service by that method; or\n(e) where the witness is subject to air force law, military law or the Naval Discipline Act 1957, through his commanding officer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1957 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3442/rule/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:40:03.804021+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."
}