{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-hearsay-evidence-in-civil-proceedings-rules-1999/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-hearsay-evidence-in-civil-proceedings-rules-1999/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/681",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Hearsay Evidence in Civil Proceedings) Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-hearsay-evidence-in-civil-proceedings-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Hearsay notices",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a party who desires to give hearsay evidence at the hearing must, not less than 21 days before the date fixed for the hearing, serve a hearsay notice on every other party and file a copy in the court by serving it on the justices' clerk.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the court or the justices' clerk may make a direction substituting a different period of time for the service of the hearsay notice under paragraph (1) on the application of a party to the proceedings.\n(3) The court may make a direction under paragraph (2) of its own motion.\n(4) A hearsay notice must–\n(a) state that it is a hearsay notice;\n(b) identify the proceedings in which the hearsay evidence is to be given;\n(c) state that the party proposes to adduce hearsay evidence;\n(d) identify the hearsay evidence;\n(e) identify the person who made the statement which is to be given in evidence; and\n(f) state why that person will not be called to give oral evidence.\n(5) A single hearsay notice may deal with the hearsay evidence of more than one witness.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/681/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:26.795275+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."
}