{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-adoption-rules-2005/article-141",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-adoption-rules-2005/article-141.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2795",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure (Adoption) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-adoption-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/141",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "141",
  "heading": "Witness summonses",
  "text": "(1) A witness summons is a document issued by the court requiring a witness to—\n(a) attend court to give evidence; or\n(b) produce documents to the court.\n(2) A witness summons must be in the relevant form.\n(3) There must be a separate witness summons for each witness.\n(4) A witness summons may require a witness to produce documents to the court either—\n(a) on the date fixed for a hearing; or\n(b) on such date as the court may direct.\n(5) The only documents that a summons under this rule can require a person to produce before a hearing are documents which that person could be required to produce at the hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2795/article/141",
    "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."
}