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  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Blood Tests) Rules 1971",
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  "text": "A court may give a direction in the absence of the applicant and the other party to the proceedings if it appears to the court that that other party, or, where he is under a disability, the person having the care and control of him has consented to the giving of the direction.",
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