{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2011-revoked/part-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2011-revoked/part-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1709",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2011 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2011-revoked",
  "path": "part/28",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "WITNESS SUMMONSES, WARRANTS AND ORDERS",
  "text": "[Note. A magistrates' court may require the attendance of a witness to give evidence or to produce in evidence a document or thing by a summons, or in some circumstances a warrant for the witness' arrest, under section 97 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980. The Crown Court may do so under sections 2, 2D, 3 and 4 of the Criminal Procedure (Attendance of Witnesses) Act 1965. Either court may order the production in evidence of a copy of an entry in a banker's book without the attendance of an officer of the bank, under sections 6 and 7 of the Bankers' Books Evidence Act 1879.\nSee Part 3 for the court's general powers to consider an application and to give directions.]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "repealed",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1709/part/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:01:56.541930+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."
}