{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-24.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-24.2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/24.2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "24.2",
  "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 form set out in Practice Direction 24A.\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.\n(... )",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 24.2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Family Procedure Rules 2010 and Court of Protection Rules 2017 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/517), regs. 1(1), 16(3) (with reg. 25) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1493, regs. 1(1), 8(2)(d)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/24.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:56.480940+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."
}