{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2014-revoked/part-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2014-revoked/part-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1610",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Procedure Rules 2014 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-rules-2014-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 or under paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. 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": "E+W",
  "status": "repealed",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules revoked (5.10.2015) by The Criminal Procedure Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/1490), Preamble (with rule 2.1)[Editorial note: No historical revised versions have been created for amendments to this S.I. made prior to its final revocation. A revised version of how the S.I. stood at its first commencement is available and, to see the document content as it originally stood when it was made, select the ‘Original (As Made)’ version. For further details of the amendments see the List of All Changes available in ‘More Resources’]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1610/part/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:31.681463+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."
}