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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-proceedings-in-other-jurisdictions-act-1975/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/34",
  "legislation_title": "Evidence (Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions) Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-proceedings-in-other-jurisdictions-act-1975",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Extension of powers of High Court etc. in relation to obtaining evidence for proceedings in that court.",
  "text": "The Attendance of Witnesses Act 1854 (which enables the Court of Session to order the issue of a warrant of citation in special form, enforceable throughout the United Kingdom, for the attendance of a witness at a trial) shall have effect as if references to attendance at a trial included references to attendance before an examiner or commissioner appointed by the court or a judge thereof in any cause or matter in that court, including an examiner or commissioner appointed to take evidence outside the jurisdiction of the court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/34/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:37:58.163404+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."
}