{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-1992/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-1992/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2882",
  "legislation_title": "Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/faculty-jurisdiction-rules-1992",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Judge’s Witness",
  "text": "(1) The chancellor may of his own motion direct the summoning of a member of the advisory committee, the Council for the Care of Churches or any other person to give evidence at the hearing of any petition for a faculty, if he considers that the person summoned may be able to give relevant evidence and is willing to give it.\n(2) Where any person has applied in accordance with rule 21, 22 or 23 or has been summonded under paragraph (1) to give evidence in proceedings for a faculty, the registrar shall give to the parties to the proceedings not less than seven clear days' notice in writing that the evidence is to be given and of the name and address of the proposed witness and, in the case of a witness summoned under paragraph (1) of this rule, of the nature of the evidence required of him.\n(3) Evidence given by any such person as is referred to in paragraph (2) of this rule shall be subject to cross-examination by the party or parties to the proceedings and any such witness may be permitted to ask questions of the party or parties with the leave of the chancellor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2882/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:11:42.975346+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."
}