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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-adoption-rules-2005/article-140",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2795",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Adoption) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-adoption-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/140",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "140",
  "heading": "Scope of this Section",
  "text": "(1) This Section of this Part provides—\n(a) for the circumstances in which a person may be required to attend court to give evidence or to produce a document; and\n(b) for a party to obtain evidence before a hearing to be used at the hearing.\n(2) This Section, except for rule 149(2) to (4), does not apply to proceedings in a magistrates' court.\n(Section 97 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 sets out the procedure for obtaining a witness summons in proceedings in a magistrates' court.)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43."
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:01.488224+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."
}